Re: Version 1 accidentally released as version 2...
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:33:46AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:20:15PM -0300, Leo Antunes a écrit :
> > If that's done then you're job's simple, repackage with the new version
> > and that's it. Make it as fast as possible though, since your users are
> > probably a bit confused by now... and if upstream takes a while to
> > release officially (for any reason), you could just get the CVS version
> > tagged as 2.0, name it 2.0+1-1 or something like that and upload fast.
> > If, however, upstream decides to not release a new tarball you repackage
> > it yourself and use the same naming convention as above.
>
> OK, thanks all for your answers. I will mention the problem in the
> README. How can I give a message only to the users who upgrade from the
> previous version? I do not want to annoy the ones who will install from
> Etch next year...
If you put in NEWS.Debian (it has the same format as debian/changelog, you
can even use dch to edit it) then people who are using apt-listchanges and
are upgrading from a version older than the version in which the news was
logged against will see the message.
- Matt
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