[maemo-developers] where might this old version be coming from

[From: Eduard.Bartosh at nokia.com]

Hi, 

>
>I'm sorry. I thought extras-devel was a testing area of sorts. 
>Upload something try it out, see how it goes. Then tweak and 
>go through the process again. 
You're right. We just have different definition of tweak :)
>From my point of view any code change has to reflect package revision if
package uploaded to the repository.

The reason of the problem you described is buggy repository management
software. However, it doesn't mean that reuploading the same version of
package is a good practice. That's why we're going to implement version
check for packages uploaded to the build to avoid this. If you disagree,
please speak up.

> Then when I'm finally satisfied, 
>promote to extras. But it seems that extras-devel has many of 
>the same rules as extras. Oh well, I appreciate the information.
>
Extras-devel is a testing area, and potentially testers and developers
can install packages from there for testing, right? If developer would
reupload package with the same version how people, who install this
package from extras-devel would know which package they installed? How
they can be sure that they installed fixed package, if fixed and broken
packages would have the same version?

You can also look at these 2 bugs if you want more details:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3488
https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2661&group_id
=602&atid=2262


>thanks,
>Frank
>
>On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Niels Breet <niels at maemo.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, October 1, 2008 15:49, Frank Banul wrote:
>>> Hi,
>> Hi,
>>
>>>
>>> I've been making changes to coverfinder, getting it though the 
>>> autobuilder, and I finally think I have something I like for now. 
>>> But, for some reason, when I install to my tablet, I get an older 
>>> version than what appears to be in the deb.
>>> 
>http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/diablo/free/c/coverfind
>>> er/c overfinder_0.1.1_armel.deb contains a binary, coverfinder of 
>>> 27224 Oct 1 06:56. But when I do an apt-get install 
>coverfinder from 
>>> my tablet or just download the deb directly, I get a binary sized 
>>> 27140 Sep 30 18:17.
>>>
>>> Any ideas what am I doing wrong?
>>
>> This problem happens because you uploaded the same package with the 
>> exact same version number twice. You really should not do that.
>>
>> Each time a package ends up in the repository, you need to increase 
>> your revision number for the next upload.
>>
>> That your package ends up in the repository the second time is 
>> actually a
>> bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3488
>> But that will be fixed soon.
>>
>> For now, please increase the version number like 0.1.1-2, 
>0.1.1-3 etc etc.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks, Frank
>>
>> --
>> Niels Breet
>> maemo.org webmaster
>>
>>
>>
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