Re: lintian troubles and .changes doubts

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Alessandro Dentella <sandro@e-den.it> (03/09/2009):
>> Hi,
> 
> Hello,
> 
>>   I'm trying to produce the python-sqlkit package. I'm both the upsteam
>>   author and the mantainer. I have /debian folder in original package. I
>>   recently read is not recommended but I found easier to manage to have it
>>   in the same mercurial repo. I have several questions:

You'll have to change that in case you want to get the package into debian.


>>
>> release version
>> ---------------
>>
>>   The .deb was lintian clean on rel 0.8.6-rc5, then I did 'dch -v 0.8.6' and
>>   dch required -b option as felt 0.8.6-rc5 was grater than 0.8.6.
> 
> it is. You should have used “0.8.6~rc5”, which sorts lower than
> “0.8.6”, while “0.8.6-rc5” sorts higher.

dpkg --compare-versions is helpful here, if you don't know the details :)


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