Re: how to force binary package rebuild?
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
> 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
If you do a new upload add a Build-Depends (or Build-Conflict n the
old) on a new enough -dev of the library you suspect of breaking
things to ensure all buildds have it, just in case.
MfG
Goswin
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