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Re: [RFU] lftp-3.7.6-1
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53:15AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 14 04:32, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> > > # 1.5
>> > > wget \
>> > > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.5/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1.tar.bz2 \
>> > > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.5/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1-src.tar.bz2
>> >
>> > Uploaded.
>> >
>> > > # 1.7
>> > > wget \
>> > > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.7/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1.tar.bz2 \
>> > > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.7/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1-src.tar.bz2
>> >
>> > This is sort of a problem. Can you please repack the 1.7 package and
>> > rename it to lftp-3.7.6-2? The release numbers shouldn't collide with
>> > the 1.5 package.
>>
>> Eh? Whyso? They're in different archives, right?
>
>Not quite. The 1.5 packages are mirrored into the 1.7 release directory
>using a unionfs. So there's a name collision. It can work out fine
>if the uploader does the job right, but it's a bit weird. Right now
>it's better to keep the packages separate by using different subrelease
>numbers.
Right. And, if the packages are actually different they shouldn't have the
same -version anyway. It's too confusing.
cgf