Re: Chaning a new package still in incoming?
>>>>> On Wed, 5 May 1999 15:43:27 +0200, Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr> said:
Sven> On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 09:26:14AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith
Sven> wrote:
>>
>> Roderick Schertler wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:20:02 -0400, Peter S Galbraith
>> > <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.
>> > ca> said:
>> > >
>> > > I _just_ found a little bug and would like to replace with -1
>> > > package with a new one with the same name (but new changes
>> > > file with new checksum). Can I do that? Or Must I upload a
>> > > version -2 ?
>> >
>> > You should use a new version number if it was in incoming for
>> > more than a minute or two, because people download packages from
>> > incoming and its mirrors.
>> >
>> > -- Roderick Schertler roderick@argon.org
>>
>> Good point. It's too late now, unless I upload a new -2 version
>> identical to the changed -1 version.
Sven> a -1.1 will do also, altough dotted debian versions are
Sven> ususally reserved for NMUs.
Sven> or you could do a -1.updated or or something like that ...
Umm. why would you even consider either of these options? a -2 is
the only good choice (and I think a good idea in this case).
Dres
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