On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 07:51:06AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > After three release candidates, I released 0.5.1, and I'd like to publish the > package. I made a source package and uploaded it, but got this error: > > Rejected: > perfecttin_0.5.1-1.dsc: Version older than that in the archive. 0.5.1-1 <= > 0.5.1rc3-3 > > How do I get Launchpad to accept the package?
For this time, you'll have to manually remove 0.5.1rc3-3 first, after which you should be able to upload 0.5.1-1. However, any systems that have the old version installed won't automatically upgrade to the new version, because 0.5.1rc3-3 < 0.5.1-1 in dpkg's version ordering. If that's important to you, then you'll need to work around that somehow. I might be inclined to artificially change the version to something like 0.5.1+0-1 instead, which actually is greater than 0.5.1rc3-3 and shouldn't risk confusion with future upstream releases, but it may depend slightly on your relationship with upstream. For next time, 0.5.1rc3-3 should have been spelled 0.5.1~rc3-3 instead, and then the ordering would work properly. $ if dpkg --compare-versions 0.5.1rc3-3 lt 0.5.1-1; then echo yes; else echo no; fi no $ if dpkg --compare-versions 0.5.1rc3-3 lt 0.5.1+0-1; then echo yes; else echo no; fi yes -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@canonical.com] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : launchpad-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
