Re: PPA Build Error/Tilde In Version

[Will Daniels <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pedro Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:10 +0000, Will Daniels wrote:

  

Thanks William, Onkar & Andrea for answering my question - it makes 
sense now!  So my next question then is if I make an updated package for 
the dependency in question and upload it to my PPA, can the build system 
be made to use the updated package from my PPA somehow?
    

Hmmm.... It depends on the naming of your source package. In this case,
you'll probably will need to be uploaded again. 

Let's see. Say your original package is called:

mico-2.3.9+svn93494.tar.gz 

You prepare the debian packaging and call your package:

mico_2.3.9+svn93494-1~ppa1

Sooo your source file will be named

mico_2.3.9+svn93494.orig.tar.gz

and will need to be uploaded. Now, say you made a mistake in the
packaging and have to regenerate the source package and it ends up baing
called:

mico_2.3.9+svn93494-1~ppa2 

and you don't need to upload the source. Why not -2~ppa1? Such revision
increases are used to indicate patches and similar changes made by the
original packager. The scheme is a bit convoluted and explained in the
Debian Policy Manual. In ubuntu, when there are extra changes that only
matter to the distro, you'll see the -NubuntuN suffix.

  

Hi Pedro,

Sorry, I don't think I've made my question very clear (should probably have started a new thread) - I understand the naming system now, but what I'm not sure about is this:

I uploaded a source package monodevelop_0.18.1+dfsg-1 (which I took from Debian upstream) which has a build dependency libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil (>= 0.3).  The current version of libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil in Hardy is 0.3~svn.r90520-1, which I soon discovered is actually < 0.3 so the build failed.  What I want to know is, if I upload an updated source package to my PPA for libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil so that the version is >= 0.3, will I then be able to build my monodevelop package, or will the build system only be able to use the lower version from the main repositories?

Thanks,
Will