On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:50:09PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:54:15PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Making a custom build would be a moderately reasonable solution, but how can > > it actually be done for an ordinary package? No joke, looking at the source > > tree in bzip2-0.9.5d/, created by apt-get source, I can't even find where > > 0.9.5d-2 is defined, except for a line in ./debian/changelog. > > That's exactly where the version number is defined. > You're utterly right! I tried adding my own "fake" entry to ./debian/changelog, just adding a custom tag at the end of the version number, and 'debian/rules binary' processed it perfectly! So now bzip2 is 0.9.5d-2-PII.1 (my label for "pentium II optimised") instead of 0.9.5d-2. What a curious way of home-compiling a package! I still say dpkg (or apt-get or whoever) is misbehaving. You shouldn't have to go through these tricks of version relabeling merely to recompile a package! Drew
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