Re: reuploading packages
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:33:06AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:28:07PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > There are a handful of recently-built packages for ARM where the same version
> > is required in both potato and woody. (This happens for long-term-unbuildable
> > packages that have been broken because of some external factor since before
> > potato was frozen.)
> >
> > It doesn't work to upload the same package twice; dinstall rejects it, saying
> > "can't overwrite PACKAGE.deb which is already in the archive", or something of
> > the kind. What's the right way to handle this?
>
> Bump the version by .0.1, for a binary-only NMU.
...and either upload the newer version to unstable, or make the new
version go to unstable/stable both (assuming it is built on stable).
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