Re: how to force binary package rebuild?
On 2004-05-30 Mike Williams <mdub@dogbiscuit.org> wrote:
> One of my packages (librmagick-ruby) recently stopped working (details left
> intentionally vague). I believe this was due to a change in one of the
> libraries it depends on.
> In any case, rebuilding against an updated sid install got it working
> again, without any source changes required. In other words, my source
> package is fine; it's just the i386 binary package that is bogus.
> I suspect that users of my package are going to be hit by this, too.
> Q. Is there an easy way for me for get an updated i386 package into the
> archive, without incrementing the revision-number?
If you are positive that only the i386 package is broken you can
recompile it with a special version number as described in
"5.10.2.1 Recompilation or binary-only NMU" in developers reference.
Otherwise just upload a new revision with:
* recompiled to fix spurious errors.
cu andreas
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