[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Re: mailman_2.1.8-1_sparc.changes REJECTED

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:43:51PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 08:17:09AM -0700, Debian Installer wrote:

>> Rejected: mailman_2.1.8-1_sparc.deb: old version (0:2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1) in unstable >= new version (2.1.8-1) targeted at unstable.
>> Rejected: mailman_2.1.8-1_sparc.deb: old version (0:2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1) in testing >= new version (2.1.8-1) targeted at unstable.
>> Rejected: mailman_2.1.8-1.dsc: old version (0:2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1) in unstable >= new version (2.1.8-1) targeted at unstable.
>> Rejected: mailman_2.1.8-1.dsc: old version (0:2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1) in testing >= new version (2.1.8-1) targeted at unstable.

> That's all completely wrong:

> dmaster at bagnat:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0:2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1 lt 2.1.8-1 && echo yes || echo no
> yes

> According to policy, an explicit zero epoch is exactly the same as no
> epoch.

I downloaded katie and traced the bug back to libapt-pkg (via
python-apt), and submitted a patch, which got applied. Version 0.6.44
solves this error.

-- 
Lionel