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Re: very late freeze exception for texlive-extra 2007.dfsg.16-1



On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:13:40PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:43:46 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Fr, 13 Feb 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > > Ok ... here is another one but I will not be able to upload a fix for it
> > > > before Monday (16.) morning. (Bug #515086)
> > > > Anything we can do here?
> > > Will need to go to proposed-updates (next to unstable) after the release
> > > (so Monday would be fine).
> > Anything I have to make sure while uploading? Should the changelog be
> > changed in a certain way, specific version numbering?
> If the version in stable is 2007.dfsg.16-1, 2007.dfsg.16-1+lenny1 should be
> fine. Everything _lower_ than any version in squeeze/sid (to ease upgrades) but
> _higher_ than the current version in lenny.
> 
> You may want to check --compare-versions:
> 
> $ dpkg --compare-versions 2007.dfsg.16-1 lt 2007.dfsg.16-1+lenny1
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $

Please note that this probably won't work as long as the version in
testing/unstable is the same as in stable.  (There are checks in place
that prevent an upload in this case and I think that the propagation
algorithm in dak may be broken currently.)

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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