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Re: source-package installation lost with upgrade



On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:51:54PM +0200, Robert Kellner wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I was building some packages with compiler-optimizations
| enabled with dpkg-buildpackage and installed the resulting
| .deb - files, but I found that if I would like to perform
| an apt-get upgrade, the packages I just installed would be
| replaced by the packages available on the ftp-servers.
| How can I prevent this?

The simplest way is to edit the debian/changelog file and increase the
version number by .1.  Then your package will be newer than the one
currently on the mirrors, but the next upstream release will be newer
than yours.

-D

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