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

From: Eduard.Bartosh at nokia.com Eduard.Bartosh at nokia.com
Date: Thu Oct 2 10:47:56 EEST 2008
Hi, 

>> >>> 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.
>
Current implementation of autobuilder doesn't check versions. That's why
it doesn't report anything.
I'm going to implement this check and notifications.

Regards,
--
Ed

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