Wookey wrote: > On 2006-12-26 17:44 +0000, Olly Betts wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:28:47PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Olly Betts wrote: >>>> The hppa binNMU was 1.0.39+b1. >>>> >>>> Wookey uploaded 1.0.39-1, which has built for all architectures >>>> including hppa, but the hppa upload was rejected because 1.0.39-1 is a >>>> *lower* version than 1.0.39+b1 by the ordering dpkg uses - this outputs >>>> `yes': >>>> >>>> dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.39b1 '>>' 1.0.39-1 && echo yes >>> 1.0.39+b1 ofcourse... >> Of course - not sure where I lost the "+". Anyway, the comparison gives >> the same result for "1.0.39+b1". >> >>>> * Reupload the package as something like: 1.0.39debian-1 >>> Nothing debian specific, so not preferred. >> I guess you must mean "nothing debian specific in the upstream release", >> so putting "debian" in the upstream version doesn't make sense? >> >> If not you've lost me, as the changes here are entirely debian-specific >> (a fix for a problem caused by the debian packaging not being >> binNMU-safe combined with the package previously being debian native). >> None of the upstream code has been modified (all the changes over 1.0.39 >> are in the debian subdirectory and there's no debian/patch). >> >>>> * Reupload the package as something like 1.0.39.1-1 (or 1.0.39.1 and fix >>>> the package to be non-native later when we aren't trying to release >>>> etch). I am the upstream for survex, so I can ensure there's never an >>>> upstream release called 1.0.39.1. >>> What about 1.0.39+upstream-1 or something similar? >> Well, there's nothing upstream specific here either! But it does the >> job so I'm happy to go with it, assuming Wookey (cc:-ed) is. ... > In the meantime I've just added phil bull's .desktop files patch to my > sources here (#403870). So I could just upload a 1.0.39.1-1 with this > minor change.
Ok, please do a sourcefull upload. > The latter is easier, but is not zero-risk due to adding desktop > files. The former is more targetted, and perhaps makes most sense. > > If I can't get the login sorted in the next day or two I'll upload a > 1.0.39.1-1 unless team release object. Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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