apt-get and dselect want to upgrade gnome-panel to the same version
Hi,
I am the maintainer of the unofficial gnome2.2 backport for woody, and
am having problems packaging gnome-panel. Here is what I did:
apt-get source gnome-panel (2.2.2.2-1 from sid sources)
modified debian/control to use libpng-dev instead of libpng3-dev
dch -i and changed the version number from 2.2.2.2-1 to 2.2.2.2-1jds1
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
su -c "dpkg -i ../*.deb"
The package builds and installs without errors
Then I scp these (debs, dsc, diff and orig) over to my web server, and
run dpkg-scanpackages:
cd /var/www/debian/woody
dpkg-scanpackages gnome2.2 /dev/null | gzip > ./gnome2.2/Packages.gz
No errors reported.
On the client, I do:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
and gnome-panel is downloaded and installed without errors. If I
'apt-get upgrade' again, gnome-panel is installed again. It doesn't
matter how many times I upgrade, gnome-panel is never at the current
version (according to apt).
[james@sirius ~]$ apt-cache policy gnome-panel
gnome-panel:
Installed: 2.2.2.2-1jds1
Candidate: 2.2.2.2-1jds1
Version Table:
2.2.2.2-1jds1 0
500 http://hedwig gnome2.2/ Packages
*** 2.2.2.2-1jds1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.4.0.6-5 0
500 http://208.185.25.38 stable/main Packages
Everything looks ok here. Also, the other packages from the gnome-panel
source (eg gnome-panel-data) do not have this problem.
gnome-panel in sid does not appear to have this problem, so it doesn't
appear to be a bug in the package. dpkg and apt are the same version on
all machines involved (from woody). It also happens with dselect, so it
is not apt specific.
What am I doing wrong?
Jamie
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James Strandboge
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