On Sun, 25 May 2008 17:17:04 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > I consider such requirement quite suboptimal. [..] 2) even > not being officially published, this source package is in the wild and it is > a bad idea to just reset its versioning (well unless using epoch which would > be compeltely unneeded) since these users who built & installed first version > of -1 from mentors won't get the updated one from official mirrors. Not true: $ apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://ftp.it.debian.org unstable/main Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.it.debian.org [..] $ Usually locally installed packages have lower priority than those available at repositories. When I propose one of my packages to a sponsor, I usually have it installed (dpkg -i), and when it gets uploaded, an "apt-get upgrade" replaces it with the officially available one. This, of course, if version numbers match. If you locally have -2, and the repos have -1, it won't be overwritten. Try. David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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