Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:48:02PM -0800, Cameron Norman wrote:
> El vie, 20 de feb 2015 a las 12:04 , Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de>
> escribió:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I would like to use upstream's Debian/Ubuntu packages for a certain
> tool 'foo'. Its closer to what I need, and I don't have migrate between
> both versions before asking the mailing list for help or for
> reporting/fixing problems. Problem: The Debian maintainer messed up the
> version numbers and had to introduce a "1:" for his foo package. Now
> upstream's package always appears to be out of date, forcing me to
> override apt-get.
>
> Not the cleanest option, but can upstream just introduce the 1: as
> well?
Of course, why not?
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