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

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:03:52AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> 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

Okay, that reads like:
 If there is no offical Debian maintainer yet, then use -0.1.

Also there is no harm in that it looks a like a NMU,
it _says_ there is no one in Debian maintaining the package.

 
> 
> 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.

(-:   start with -0 ( e.g. -0test1, -0sss1 -0.1 )
so that -1 can enter the offical Debian archive. :-)


Cheers
Geert Stappers