On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:33:46AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:20:15PM -0300, Leo Antunes a écrit : > > If that's done then you're job's simple, repackage with the new version > > and that's it. Make it as fast as possible though, since your users are > > probably a bit confused by now... and if upstream takes a while to > > release officially (for any reason), you could just get the CVS version > > tagged as 2.0, name it 2.0+1-1 or something like that and upload fast. > > If, however, upstream decides to not release a new tarball you repackage > > it yourself and use the same naming convention as above. > > OK, thanks all for your answers. I will mention the problem in the > README. How can I give a message only to the users who upgrade from the > previous version? I do not want to annoy the ones who will install from > Etch next year...
If you put in NEWS.Debian (it has the same format as debian/changelog, you can even use dch to edit it) then people who are using apt-listchanges and are upgrading from a version older than the version in which the news was logged against will see the message. - Matt
