This one time, at band camp, Michael Koch said: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > > of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring > > upgradeability. > > > > The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the next > > release will be 0.70. The obvious problem is: > > steve@gashuffer:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes > > steve@gashuffer:~$ > > > > That won't upgrade, so I need some hack to do it. I could go with > > something like 0.70-0rc1, but then I have to change the name of the > > upstream tarball as well to a version that it really isn't, correct? > > Anybody already faced this problem and come up with a reasonable > > solution? > > You could use 0.70-release-1 (or 0.70-rel1). steve@gashuffer:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-release-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes steve@gashuffer:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rel1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes steve@gashuffer:~$ Same result. Thanks, though. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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