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

[From: Owen Williams]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:02 -0500, Frank Banul wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?

> But no matter, I don't have a problem with it.
> 
> Frank

I agree that this behavior makes sense, but developers should receive an
email or other message announcing that they have tried to re-upload a
package that already exists on extras-devel.  The current mode of
"silent failure" is the problem, not the versioning policy.

owen