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

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Frank Banul wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> Well I control that don't I? If I want to make sure users get the
> update, then I bump the revision. If I don't care, then I don't. I had
> the impression using extras-devel was risky anyway. Adding the risk of
> different code with the same revision doesn't bother me until it
> happens in the extras repository. All just my opinion.

It's wise to follow proper packaging procedure even during testing  
phases. Two different packages with the exact same version doesn't  
make much sense, does it? :)

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair