On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:02 -0500, Frank Banul wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Frank Banul wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Then when I'm finally satisfied, > >>>> promote to extras. But it seems that extras-devel has many of > >>>> the same rules as extras. Oh well, I appreciate the information. > >>>> > >>> Extras-devel is a testing area, and potentially testers and developers > >>> can install packages from there for testing, right? If developer would > >>> reupload package with the same version how people, who install this > >>> package from extras-devel would know which package they installed? How > >>> they can be sure that they installed fixed package, if fixed and broken > >>> packages would have the same version?
> But no matter, I don't have a problem with it. > > Frank I agree that this behavior makes sense, but developers should receive an email or other message announcing that they have tried to re-upload a package that already exists on extras-devel. The current mode of "silent failure" is the problem, not the versioning policy. owen _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
