Pedro Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:10 +0000, Will Daniels wrote:
Thanks William, Onkar & Andrea for answering my question - it makes
sense now! So my next question then is if I make an updated package for
the dependency in question and upload it to my PPA, can the build system
be made to use the updated package from my PPA somehow?
Hmmm.... It depends on the naming of your source package. In this case,
you'll probably will need to be uploaded again.
Let's see. Say your original package is called:
mico-2.3.9+svn93494.tar.gz
You prepare the debian packaging and call your package:
mico_2.3.9+svn93494-1~ppa1
Sooo your source file will be named
mico_2.3.9+svn93494.orig.tar.gz
and will need to be uploaded. Now, say you made a mistake in the
packaging and have to regenerate the source package and it ends up baing
called:
mico_2.3.9+svn93494-1~ppa2
and you don't need to upload the source. Why not -2~ppa1? Such revision
increases are used to indicate patches and similar changes made by the
original packager. The scheme is a bit convoluted and explained in the
Debian Policy Manual. In ubuntu, when there are extra changes that only
matter to the distro, you'll see the -NubuntuN suffix.
Hi Pedro,
Sorry, I don't think I've made my question very clear (should probably
have started a new thread) - I understand the naming system now, but
what I'm not sure about is this:
I uploaded a source package monodevelop_0.18.1+dfsg-1 (which I took from
Debian upstream) which has a build dependency libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
(>= 0.3). The current version of libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil in Hardy is
0.3~svn.r90520-1, which I soon discovered is actually < 0.3 so the build
failed. What I want to know is, if I upload an updated source package
to my PPA for libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil so that the version is >= 0.3,
will I then be able to build my monodevelop package, or will the build
system only be able to use the lower version from the main repositories?
Thanks,
Will
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