Bug#131252: apt: When built from source, apt always says there is a newer version.

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Vincent van Adrighem wrote:
> When using apt-get source --build <package> and then
> installing that package (with dpkg), apt says from that
> moment on that you can install a newer version while it is
> the same version, only precompiled instead of homebrewn.

This is by design.

> This behavior isundesirable, because when you've built an optimized version
> of, say, mozilla: every time you invoke apt-get upgrade, it says there is
> a newer mozilla, while the one on your system is actually better.

Build your own package with a higher version number or put it on hold.

Wichert.

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