[ros-users] New packages for Groovy

Ką Mykolas kamicc at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 15:52:17 UTC 2014


I'd like to highlight ` * ros-groovy-rviz: 1.9.34-0 -> 1.9.35-2`
update, for everyone who had problems with stock 1.9.34-0 crashing
[1]. This version appears to be FIXED [2] :}

Question: would it be difficult to have a proper change-logs while
updating through `apt`?

Thanks!

Žilvinas.

[1] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz/issues/715
[2] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz/commit/899467794d9aebe45cf80f8d896644bedf82108e


On 4/29/14, Jochen Sprickerhof <ros-users at jochen.sprickerhof.de> wrote:
> Hy Tully,
>
> * Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org> [2014-04-24 23:07]:
>>  * ros-groovy-xacro: 1.7.4 -> 1.6.2
>
> You should never do this (cf. [1])! Package versions as all version numbers
> are only allowed to go up, not down. If you really need to downgrade a
> package, you can add the old version number behind the new one, like
> this: 1.7.4+rally1.6.2-s1395213230~precise, alternatively (in case you
> messed up the version numbers) you can add a epoch [2]. Could you please
> fix this, as it breaks updates?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jochen
>
> [1]
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_emergency_downgrading
> [2]
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
>


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