Re: Versioning question

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

On 2004-03-18 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said:
> > There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released.
> > 
> > In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what
> > you suggest) is a common workaround. It's not too bad to change the
> > tarball name.

> OK, if it's not a big deal to change the tarball name, then I will just
> go ahead and do that.  I was thinking it made for more complication
> than it apparently does - the thing I'm worried about is uploading when
> 0.70 comes out, and I am uploading a new tarball.  If both are named
> 0.70 (wuith only the revision changing from -0rc1 to -1), I thought the
> pool managing scripts would complain.

I think you are misparsing Colin. The pool managing scripts will
definitely complain if you upload a new foish-bar_0.70.orig.tar.gz.
You /cannot/ replace a foish-bar_0.70.orig.tar.gz in the archive
without changing the name.

You need to do this:
wget ftp://upsteam.org/foish-bar-0.70-rc-1.tar.gz
mv foish-bar-0.70-rc-1.tar.gz foish-bar_0.69-really-0.70-rc-1.orig.tar.gz
tar xzf foish-bar_0.69-really-0.70-rc-1.orig.tar.gz
cd foish-bar-0.70-rc-1
# The directory name in the tarball does not matter at all, you can
# still use the original tarball
generate debian/
etc.
           cu andreas