On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 11:04, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 1/18/06, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What please is the difference between a buildX package and all the > > other packages that were rebuilt without the buildX annotation? > > It is quite similar to what debian calls a binary NMU, but developers > do not need wanna-build access to that. Instead, they upload a new > .dsc and .diff.gz, which gets accepted by katie as new package upload. > > These kind of uploads are necessary during transitions, e.g. when a > package has been built against an older library but needs to be > rebuilt with an newer one.
Not sure what your first "It" refers to. When there's a library transition, does the package get a new version in Ubuntu like it would in Debian? If yes, why do some Ubuntu packages have the same version as Debian when Ubuntu is using different libraries than Debian? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
