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

[From: Antonio Aloisio]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Jeremiah Foster <
jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:

>
> On May 26, 2009, at 14:27, Tim Teulings wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> >>> 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 :)
> >>
> >> Why would you want to upload a package with the same version number?
> >> Incrementing the version number is the purpose of the version number,
> >> so of course you would want to change the version number every time
> >> there is a new package.
> >
> > You should be able to use the same version again and again as long
> > as the autobuild does not let the package pass. Why increment the
> > version
> > number
> > for building atempts nobody will ever see. The "check in" (to speak in
> > version
> > control speach) occures if the autobuilder let the package pass.
> >
> > So I can upload badthing-0.1 as often as I like up to the point
> > autobuild builds, for my next update I must use a higher version
> > number
> > (I cannot replace packages using the same version and smaller
> > versioned
> > packages will enevr been seen by anybody).
>
> If you upload a version that already exists, the autobuilder will
> reject it. This makes sense.

I agree

>
>
> Jeremiah
>
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