lftp version override help

[Jon Turney]

On 11/10/2017 18:35, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/11/2017 1:14 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> As I described elsewhere here, I'm trying to dump lftp 4.8.0-1, which is
>> partly broken, and promote 4.7.8-1 to current. I thought I could do 
>> that by
>> uploading override.hint with:
>>
>> prev: 4.7.7-1
>> curr: 4.7.8-1
>> test: 4.7.8-1

It's not clear what using the same version as test: and curr: means.

It's not something I considered, so please don't do that.

It probably should be reported as an error.

>> But calm doesn't like that:
>>
>> ERROR: package 'lftp' version '4.8.0-1' is most recent non-test version,
>> but version '4.7.8-1' is curr:
>> ERROR: package 'lftp-debuginfo' version '4.8.0-1' is most recent non-test
>> version, but version '4.7.8-1' is curr:
>> ERROR: error while validating merged x86 packages for Andrew Schulman
>>
>> So I guess I need a manual intervention. Can someone please help?
> 
> See https://cygwin.com/package-upload.html near the end, under the 
> heading "Removing files from the Cygwin distribution".
  Note that this will not cause setup to automatically downgrade people 
to 4.7.8-1 if they have 4.8.0-1 installed.