Re: same upstream version but different orig.tar.gz

[wferi@niif.hu (Ferenc Wágner)]

Herbert Fortes <hpfn@ig.com.br> writes:

>> You can work around this locally by rewriting your .changes files; the
>> changestool utility in the reprepro packages can help with that.  But
>> you won't be able to upload different files with the same name.  The
>> usual solution is adding a numeric part to the version after +dfsg, like
>> +dfsg1, and incrementing that on each change to the tarball.
>
> The version in experimental[0] now is 7.2.0+dfsg-2.
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=webcamoid&suite=experimental
>
> The next upload will be 7.2.0+dfsg1-1 ?

$ dpkg --compare-versions 7.2.0+dfsg-2 \< 7.2.0+dfsg1-1 && echo yes
yes

, that would be a valid choice.
-- 
Feri