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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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basename

BASENAME(1)							   User Commands						       BASENAME(1)

NAME

       basename - strip directory and suffix from filenames

SYNOPSIS

       basename NAME [SUFFIX]
       basename OPTION

DESCRIPTION

       Print NAME with any leading directory components removed.  If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

EXAMPLES

       basename /usr/bin/sort
	      Output "sort".

       basename include/stdio.h .h
	      Output "stdio".

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report basename bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report basename translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       dirname(1), readlink(1)

       The  full  documentation  for basename is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and basename programs are properly installed at your
       site, the command

	      info coreutils 'basename invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011						       BASENAME(1)

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