[RFU] lftp-3.7.6-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53:15AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 14 04:32, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> > > # 1.5
>> > > wget \
>> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.5/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1.tar.bz2 \
>> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.5/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1-src.tar.bz2
>> > 
>> > Uploaded.
>> > 
>> > > # 1.7
>> > > wget \
>> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.7/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1.tar.bz2 \
>> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.7/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1-src.tar.bz2
>> > 
>> > This is sort of a problem.  Can you please repack the 1.7 package and
>> > rename it to lftp-3.7.6-2?  The release numbers shouldn't collide with
>> > the 1.5 package.
>> 
>> Eh?  Whyso?  They're in different archives, right?
>
>Not quite.  The 1.5 packages are mirrored into the 1.7 release directory
>using a unionfs.  So there's a name collision.  It can work out fine
>if the uploader does the job right, but it's a bit weird.  Right now
>it's better to keep the packages separate by using different subrelease
>numbers.

Right.  And, if the packages are actually different they shouldn't have the
same -version anyway.  It's too confusing.

cgf