Bug#450642: dh-make-perl: Do not create a -1 Debian revision by default.

David Paleino d.paleino at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 20:52:08 UTC 2007


tag 450642 + unreproducible wontfix
thanks

Hilko Bengen <bengen at debian.org> wrote:
> 	$ dh-make-perl --cpan Acme::Drunk
> 
> prepares for me a changelog entry beginning with:
> 
> 	libacme-drunk-perl (0.03-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> which is technically okay but lets users easily shoot themselves in
> the foot when combining --cpan with --build or --install for
> spontaneously building local packages: If a properly packaged
> libacme-drunk-perl 0.03-1 makes its way into the Debian distribution,
> it will not be installed over that locally-geneerated package.

This is not true. Official packages have higher priority over locally
installed, even if version number coincide. This happens to me very often: I
build a package, dpkg -i it manually, upload it to Debian, and then apt-get
reinstalls it from the repositories as soon as it enters them.

I'm tagging this bug as unreproducible and wontfix; please feel free to change
its status if you get other results than mine.

Kindly,
David

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