Re: reuploading packages
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:28:07PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> There are a handful of recently-built packages for ARM where the same version
> is required in both potato and woody. (This happens for long-term-unbuildable
> packages that have been broken because of some external factor since before
> potato was frozen.)
>
> It doesn't work to upload the same package twice; dinstall rejects it, saying
> "can't overwrite PACKAGE.deb which is already in the archive", or something of
> the kind. What's the right way to handle this?
Bump the version by .0.1, for a binary-only NMU.
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