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Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1



On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:19:11PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:41:05AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> >...
> > That could be done either by a rebuild, or, less costly, by a simple
> > unpack/edit-changelog/repack.
> 
> Repacking breaks with every
>   Depends: somepackage (= ${Source-Version})

Ah yes.  And it's possibly not the only way it could break, so we'd
have to rebuild.  That starts to be a costly mechanism...


> > In that case, if we had libfoo0_1.0-1 in pre-testing, and
> > libfoo0_1.0-2 in unstable, we'd end up with libfoo0_1.0-2.0.1 in
> > pre-testing, and libfoo0_1.0-2.0.2 in unstable, whether the latter was
> > rebuilt or just repacked.
> 
> These version numbers are currently assigned to binary only NMUs, it 
> would create big confusion if they were also used for a different 
> purpose.

But binary NMUs are not much different from what I'm proposing,
especially if we're rebuilding each of these packages, or do I miss
something ?

Regards,
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