Re: From mentors to Debian repo
+++ T o n g [2015-01-11 20:11 +0000]:
> Hi,
>
> What happens when I have *more than one* version uploaded to mentors,
> then ftp master upload the package to the official Debian repo?
I don't think the version on mentors matters here. What matters is
what versions are uploaded to the Debian archive.
> It happened to me twice, and twice had the older package appear in
> official Debian repo, instead of my newly uploaded latest version.
To take the dbab example, which I am familiar with as sponsor. What happens is this:
1) You upload 1.1.2 to mentors. I review and upload 1.1.2 to Debian. Sits in NEW queue.
2) You upload 1.2.2 to mentors. I review and upload 1.2.2 to Debian. Sits in NEW queue.
3) FTPmaster gets to review dbab and OK's it in queue. They can easily
not notice that there is a second version already uploaded (I
suspect their interface makes it hard to notice as this has
happened to me a couple times). FTPmaster OKs dbab 1.1.2 so it is
now in unstable. 1.2.2 is also in the archive, but now in a sort of
limbo.
4) I try to re-upload 1.2.2 but it fails due to 'already in the archive/mismatched
checksums'.
5) Before I get round to fixing this something (FTPmaster or some cleanup code, I don't
know), notices 1.2.2 and it migrates into unstable.
So, none of this is really anything to do with the versions uploaded to mentors.
It's best not to upload a second version before the first one is out
of NEW, because there is a quite a high risk of something like the
above happening, which is not a big deal, just a bit annoying.
Wookey
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