Re: How to flag an upgrade?

["Gianluca Ciarcelluti" <gianluca@ciarcelluti.it>]

If coul'd help here is my control file:
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Source: alga
Section: unknown
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Gianluca Ciarcelluti <gianluca@ciarcelluti.it>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.5.2

Package: alga
Architecture: all
Version: 0.9-3
Description: Applicazione Libera
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and the Packages file:
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Package: alga
Section: contrib/web
Mantainer: Gianluca Ciarcelluti <gianluca@ciarcelluti.it>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.9-3
Filename: project/alga/alga_0.9-3_all.deb
Size: 378572
Description: Applicazione Libera
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any help is welcome :-)

Gianluca Ciarcelluti



> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:57:27PM +0200, Gianluca Ciarcelluti wrote:
>
>> I developed a package under debian.
>> When I try to install it trough "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" it
>> continue to reinstall it instead of display the message
>> "Sorry, hexedit is already the newest version.".
>>
>> I whoud pleasent who can help me to undertand the right way to do
>> it...
>
> This means that something in the .deb file doesn't match the Packages
> file. Perhaps you forgot to update Packages (use apt-ftparchive).
>
> --
> - mdz
>
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