Upgrading from 5.0.0-rc1 to stable might be broken on Debian

[jlecour]

Hi,

I'm not 100% sure about that but there might be an issue for Debian users who have already installed a beta/rc version.

On a Debian 8.6, I've been using the "prerelease" source list, and I've installed Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (5.0.0-rc1).

An hour ago, after the 5.0.0 GA announcement, I've changed my source list to the "normal" repository URL, did an apt update and apt upgrade.

Only Logstash was available for upgrade.

In the packages list for the "elastic" source list, the packages were all present, but a version number issue was preventing APT to consider them as newer versions.

I did apt remove elasticsearch kibana && apt install elasticsearch kibana then I got the correct (latest) versions.

[rjernst]

This is indeed a bug, and I'm sorry it has taken so long to get a fix. The problem was with the underlying library used for building the deb package. I've opened #29000 to fix this, which will apply for 7.0 prerelease versions when they are released.