On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:57:54PM -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm updating the docbook-simple package from V1.0cr2 to V1.0. Since > 1.0cr2 > 1.0, I'm not sure how to handle the situation. > > Policy & the Developers Reference imply that I upload V1.0 and file a > bug against ftp.debian.org to have V1.0CR2 removed from the > archive. This seems like an odd way to do it.
Won't work. > Also, I'd rather not give V1.0 a version like 1.0really - unless I > 'really' have to:) > > Any help on this would be much appreciated. Eventually, the right thing to do will be something like 1.0~cr2 which is less than 1.0. That won't be allowed till after sarge, IIRC. For now, the right thing to do would have been 0.999, or some similarly gross hack. To correct it, at this point, you need either to append something or add an epoch. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
