[ros-users] New packages for Groovy

[Tully Foote]

Hi Jochen,

Thanks for catching that. I'll work with the maintainer to get a new
release out quickly.

We've ticketed it to flag these as regressions on our dashboard.
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/buildfarm/issues/191

Tully


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:33 AM, 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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