[Mageia-dev] There are 2 different packages with same version and release in the repository

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le samedi 10 septembre 2011 02:32:33, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> While treating the update candidate for freetype2 in Mageia 1, I found that
> packages having exactly the same name are present in :
> tainted/updates
> tainted/updates_testing
> 
> The package is freetype2- 2.4.4-5.1.mga1.tainted.src.rpm
> 
> Those 2 packages are different, one from June, the other from August.
> 
> I'm trying to guess what happened :
> - there was an update in June (pushed only to tainted)
> - the packager forgot to increase subrel and pushed a new update candidate
> in tainted/updates_testing
> 
> I think that upon submit into tainted/updates_testing, the BS didn't check
> that there wasn't a package with a higher or equal version in
> tainted/updates. Am I right ?
> 
> Samuel

According to https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2475#c3 it may have been 
a sysadmin mischief !

Samuel