On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:21:48AM -0500, sean finney wrote:

> while in a lecture this morning i found my thoughts travelling back to
> this bug report for some reason and...

> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:58:47PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > New upstream versions for RC bugfixes are allowed via t-p-u, yes.

> this may stem from my unfamiliarity with tpu: how will the version of
> 5.0.16 from unstable ever make it to testing if the version in tpu is
> the same?  i'm just a bit concerned because we'd have two packages with
> the same version but different dependencies, which seems like a
> Bad Idea in general.

Yeah, it simply won't work.  You'd need to give this build a distinguishing
version number that's < the version in unstable; perhaps 5.0.16-0+etch1.

I'd advise against giving it a different upstream version number.

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