On Sun, 25 May 2008 17:17:04 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > I consider such requirement quite suboptimal. [..] 2) even > not being officially published, this source package is in the wild and it is > a bad idea to just reset its versioning (well unless using epoch which would > be compeltely unneeded) since these users who built & installed first version > of -1 from mentors won't get the updated one from official mirrors.
Not true:
$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 http://ftp.it.debian.org unstable/main Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.it.debian.org
[..]
$
Usually locally installed packages have lower priority than those available at
repositories.
When I propose one of my packages to a sponsor, I usually have it installed
(dpkg -i), and when it gets uploaded, an "apt-get upgrade" replaces it with the
officially available one.
This, of course, if version numbers match. If you locally have -2, and the
repos have -1, it won't be overwritten.
Try.
David
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