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Debian New Maintainers' Guide
Chapter 9 - Updating the package


9.1 New Debian revision

Let's say that a bug report was filed against your package, #54321, and it describes a problem that you can solve. To create a new Debian revision of the package, you need to:


9.2 New upstream release

Now let's consider a different, a wee bit more complicated situation - a new upstream version was released, and of course you want it packaged. You need to do the following:

Note that if you set up `debian/watch' file as described in watch.ex, Section 5.10, you can run uscan(1) to automagically look for revised sources, download them, and run uupdate.


9.3 Verifying package upgrades

When you build a new version of the package, you should do the following to verify that the package can be safely upgraded:

Bear in mind that if your package has previously been released in Debian, people will often be upgrading to your package from the version that was in the last Debian release. Remember to test upgrades from that version, too.


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Debian New Maintainers' Guide

version 1.2, 6 April 2002.

Josip Rodin joy-mg@debian.org