[maemo-developers] Problems with the fremantle autobuilder...

[From: Anderson Lizardo]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Niels Breet <niels at maemo.org> wrote:
>> This morning I got an email, it says
>> that the packages have been rejected and they won't be moved in the
>> repository because the version (5.0_5.0.32-7etch6maemo3) is minor of the
>> current [3] version available in the repository ( 5.0.32-7etch6maemo2 ).
>> Then that's very strange.. what packages have compared the script running
>> on the autobuilder?
>
> It seems that the version comparison used by BuildMe doesn't understand
> the long version number. (7etch6maemo3) I'd need to find out if such
> numbers are intended to be supported or that they are illegal.

At least dpkg understands it correctly:

$ dpkg --compare-versions 5.0.32-7etch6maemo2 lt 5.0.32-7etch6maemo3
&& echo TRUE || echo FALSE
TRUE
$ dpkg --compare-versions 5.0.32-7etch6maemo3 lt 5.0.32-7etch6maemo2
&& echo TRUE || echo FALSE
FALSE

But looking at the error message sent to the extras-cauldron list for
Antonio's package, it seems that the autobuilder is actually detecting
that the package was already accepted, which is not true.

I suppose that if a package is rejected, we can upload it with the
same version number ? Requiring to increment the version on each
failed/rejected upload would seem strange IMHO :)

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo
OpenBossa Labs - INdT
Manaus - Brazil