Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

[brichardson@lineone.net (Bruce Richardson)]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:32:31PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > 
> > Madness and not what I want.  It's not just doing it on my home machine
> > (installed from what *might* be a dodgy CD set, I suppose) but from my
> > work machine which I installed entirely over the internet.
> > 
> 
> interesting, replacing it with the same version.  Odd.

Uh huh.  On reflection, it isn't doing this with every package I
compile, it left inewsinn alone.  I gather debconf is badly broken and
not getting any better, wonder if this has anything to do with it.

-- 
Bruce

It is impolite to tell a man who is carrying you on his shoulders that
his head smells.