Comment 2 for bug 484017
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| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote Re: [Bug 484017] [NEW] error on version numbers < that in the packaging | #2 |
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On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 16:14 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> On Tue Nov 17 05:14:33 UTC 2009 Robert Collins wrote:
> > bzr builder should error if the version number in new changelog entry
> > that it is writing is less than that in the debian/changelog.
>
> I'm not entirely sure I agree with this one.
>
> Say you are basing your work on lucid branches, but you are providing backports
> for karmic, you want the version number to the less than the lucid one for
> upgrades don't you?
>
> It may still be a good thing to do, perhaps with a way to override.
I'm 99% sure the toolchain will fail if you try this.
-Rob