Re: controlling apt-get

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:21:11AM +0100, Elm Gysel wrote:
> I needed to recompile Exim with different settings so I got the
> sources and the diff file and recompiled it and made my own .deb
> package of it (debian/rules binary).

When you do this, add an entry to the top of debian/changelog with a
higher version number. This will cause the packaging system not to
overwrite it until a version appears in the Debian archive with a higher
version number than the one you chose.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]