[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Any chance to redo an upload to unstable which should have went to experimental?



On 2010-09-09 11:35 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> -----
>
> From: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
> To: debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:32:12 +0000
> Subject: Accepted gnumed-client 0.8.1-1 (source all)
>
>  gnumed-client (0.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> I intended to upload this package to experimental, but just forgot to
> change the target distribution.  Is there any other chance to change
> this rather than uploading a
>
>    gnumed-client (1:0.7.9-1) unstable;
>    gnumed-client (0.8.1-1) experimental;

Assuming you want 0.7.9 in squeeze, you could use fancy version numbers
like 0.8.1really0.7.9-1 for 0.7.9 and 0.8.1really0.8.1-1 for 0.8.1.
It's ugly, but unlike an epoch you don't have to carry it around forever
and are done with it when 0.8.2 comes out.

Sven



Reply to: