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Package updated to same version

Hi,

I recently did slight modifications to the basename utility from the coreutils package.
I downloaded the source by typing "apt-get source coreutils", added a new option to the program, updated the respective manpage, build and installed it using "dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b && dpkg -i ../coreutils*.deb".

All that works perfectly. Now what's strange about it, is that my aptitude cronjob is updating the coreutils package from the repositories to the same but unmodified release that is already installed.

I could set the package status to "hold" but that would prevent the package from getting real updates.

Can anybody shed some light on that?

Thanks a lot,
Gunther

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apt-show-source

APT-SHOW-SOURCE(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					APT-SHOW-SOURCE(1)

NAME

       apt-show-source - Lists source-packages.

DESCRIPTION

       This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file and then lists every package with a higher version number
       than the one installed.

       It may prove very useful if the "deb" entries in your APT sources.list point to stable and the "deb-src" entries point to unstable. With
       this program you are easily able to find out if there is a newer version of eg. Program XXXX in unstable.

COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS

       Optional command line parameters are the DPKG Status file to use, the path to APT's list files and a package name.  There are also options
       to display: all source-packages, verbose messages, version-only and command-line help.

OPTIONS

       -stf FILE, --status-file=FILE

       Reads installed packages from FILE instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status.

       -ld DIRECTORY, --list-dir=DIRECTORY

       DIRECTORY specifies the path to APT's list files, defaults to /var/lib/apt/lists/.

       -p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE

       Prints out the installed-package/source-package version Information for PACKAGE.

       --version-only

       Prints version only if used together with --package.

       -a, --all

       Prints out all available source-packages with version.

       -v, --verbose

       Prints out verbose messages.

       -h, --help

       Prints out command-line help.

AUTHOR

       Dennis Schoen, dennis@debian.org

SEE ALSO

       apt(1), dpkg(1)

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