tag 450642 + unreproducible wontfix thanks Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ dh-make-perl --cpan Acme::Drunk > > prepares for me a changelog entry beginning with: > > libacme-drunk-perl (0.03-1) unstable; urgency=low > > which is technically okay but lets users easily shoot themselves in > the foot when combining --cpan with --build or --install for > spontaneously building local packages: If a properly packaged > libacme-drunk-perl 0.03-1 makes its way into the Debian distribution, > it will not be installed over that locally-geneerated package.
This is not true. Official packages have higher priority over locally installed, even if version number coincide. This happens to me very often: I build a package, dpkg -i it manually, upload it to Debian, and then apt-get reinstalls it from the repositories as soon as it enters them. I'm tagging this bug as unreproducible and wontfix; please feel free to change its status if you get other results than mine. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://snipurl.com/qa_page/ : :' : Linuxer #334216 | http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://www.debianizzati.org/ `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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