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
