On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring > upgradeability. > > The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the next > release will be 0.70. The obvious problem is: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > That won't upgrade, so I need some hack to do it. I could go with > something like 0.70-0rc1, but then I have to change the name of the > upstream tarball as well to a version that it really isn't, correct? > Anybody already faced this problem and come up with a reasonable > solution?
There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released. In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what you suggest) is a common workaround. It's not too bad to change the tarball name. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
