Uploading bzr-1.5rc1 to the launchpad ppa

[James Henstridge]

2008/5/10 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen at iki.fi>:
> James Henstridge wrote (2008-05-10 16:19 +0800):
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>  > 2008/5/10 Martin Albisetti <argentina at gmail.com>:
>  > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:42 AM, John Arbash Meinel
>  > > <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>  > >  > I'm not sure how to proceed from here, and I'm getting a bit
>  > >  > tired. I'll probably try it again later, but I have exactly
>  > >  > 0 experience with building debs, so it may be a bit before I get
>  > >  > it working.
>  > >
>  > >  Great work releasing.
>  > >
>  > >  Uploaded all versions, hope that's what you wanted  :)
>  >
>  > It looks like these packages suffer from the same problem as the
>  > 1.4rc1 packages: as far as dpkg is concerned, 1.5rc1 is greater than
>  > 1.5.  I guess the 1.5 final packages will need to be 1.5.0 too.
>
>  In case some of you didn't know, you can check dpkg's version comparison
>  rules with command "dpkg --compare-versions". Examples:
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>   $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.5rc1 '>=' 1.5 && echo Yes || echo No
>   Yes
>
>   $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.5~rc1 '>=' 1.5 && echo Yes || echo No
>   No
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>   $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.5rc1 '>=' 1.5.0 && echo Yes || echo No
>   No

Right.  That's the solution used for the 1.4 final packages so that
they could upgrade the 1.4rc1 packages (which were accidentally called
1.4rc1 rather than 1.4~rc1).  I was pointing out that the same mistake
had been made for the 1.5rc1 packages.

James.