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Re: enabling architecture builds for a source package with a lower version than its binary packages



Hi,

On 2025-12-07 22:08, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> When renaming a source package, it might be desired to use a lower
> version (or epoch) for the new source package than for the binaries
> that were previously built by the old source package. wanna-build
> struggles with this case and refuses to build for architectures other
> than "all". One workaround is to build the binary packages yourself.

Unfortunately, there is no way for wanna-build to know in advance which 
version the binary packages will have, as binary packages are allowed to 
use a different version than the source once. Therefore it needs to take 
some assumptions and as a consequence doesn't handle properly take-over 
with different versions. As you pointed out, once there is a binary 
package in the archive, it is able to take better assumptions.

[...]

> conclusion
> ==========
> After all your binary uploads have been accepted, you should be able
> to follow up with a source-only upload (with a new version number).

Another alternative is to contact the wanna-build team, we can manually 
fix that, which i just did for debian-ports.

Regards
Aurelien

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