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Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?



Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> > If the current version in the archive is 1.1, and you upload an NMU
> > of 1.2, that NMU should be 1.2-0.1 (so that a maintainer upload of
> > 1.2-1 supersedes it).
>
> It should be 1.1-0.1 so a maintainer upload of 1.2 superseeds it.

But if the NMU is a new upstream version 1.2, then the correct NMU
version is 1.2-0.1.  This is in the Debian Developer's Reference:

 "If it is absolutely necessary for someone other than the usual main-
 tainer to make a release based on a new upstream version then the person
 making the release should start with the debian-revision value `0.1'."

 -- DDR 5.11.4.1: Source NMU version numbering

Also, if you upload 1.2-1, and later use 1.2-0.1 as a "test" version,
then the test version appears to be older than the uploaded version.
Instead, you should call the test version 1.2-1test1, which is clearly
between 1.2-1 and 1.2-2.



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