Bug#911780: psk31lx: version monotony violation: lenny had 2.1+2.2beta1-8

[Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:00:34AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2018-10-24 22:32, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> > $ apt-get source psk31lx
> 
> correct, this is the source you want

right,

> > So looks like the avaliable source and binary packages are
> > differs (just fyi).
> > 
> > (And I din't find the source of the current stable package - the package site
> > is this:
> > 
> > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/psk31lx
> > 
> > the source points to here:
> > http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/psk31lx/psk31lx_2.1-1.debian.tar.xz
> > 
> > which is what I got through apt-get source, not the released
> > binary source (2.1-1+b1). This package contains an "empty"
> > changelog, there isn't any version history - how could I fix this
> > what you described?)
> 
> The +b1 is a binNMU version, i.e. the package was rebuilt with no source
> changes against a newer library version. This resulted in a new binary
> package with updated dependencies, but this is not part of the history
> tracked in the source package. Sid has an even newer binNMU version of
> the same source package: +b2

thanks for the clarification.

Now if I interpret it as right way, I can use continuos the
source above.

Meantime Ted (maintainer of source) answered, and the new
version (2.2) is out - it contains the Debian patches eg...


Thanks again, I'll do it soon.


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