Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:39:47 -0400

>>...
>>CVS, I needed to recompile some c++ dependent packages like fam.
>>...
>>Now if I do 'apt-get -s upgrade', I get
>>...
>>so it wants to replace it again what I just build. How can I prevent this?
>>What's puzzling me most is that this seems so a common thing to do, jet
>>I can't find this issue in the apt-howto document.
>
> FYI, I used to get this same problem while compiling sources in RH.
> I just circumvented it by increasing the version number a bit, e.g.,
>
> Current version of emacs is:
>
> emacs21_21.3+1-5
>
> I'll make it emacs21_21.3+1-5.1
>
> which was done easily with a script.
>
> I can't tell you how to do it in debian yet, because I'm new to Debian,
> and haven't been able to compile emacs (without modification) yet.

The easiest way is to do 'dch -i <comment>'/'dch -v <new-version> <comment>' from the source directory [ie the directory that contains a debian subdirectory]. dch is from package devscripts.

Alternatively, the package tools don't seem to mind if you just fudge the newest entry in debian/changelog's version up a little bit with any text editor.

Travis Crump