Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008 15:41, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> >> Please note that this situation often occurs when the maintainer didn't >> make the watch file strip some +VCSrevNNNNN that was added to the Debian >> Version. >> >> If nobody objects I'll start filling (in an automated way since there are >> no false positives) reports on the 307 source packages which report a >> Debian upstream version higher than Upstream version by the watch file. > > I disagree. You list my package: > > Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > pysubnettree > > The reason this package is in the state it's in is that upstream uploaded > a new version of the package without changing the released version number > so a > fake version number was needed. While suboptimal, there is no bug in the > watch file.
If Debian's 0.11+1-1 is upstream's 0.11 why not just strip the '+1' using dversionmangle? That's in my POV the bug. > > While this is no doubt a rare condition, I believe that your assertion > that there are no false positives is incorrect. > > Scott K Cheers, Raphael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
