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> After all this time I feel that I should know the answer to this, but here
> goes.
> 
> I have fish-3.4.1-1, a bugfix release. I want it to replace fish-3.4.0-1,
> leaving fish-3.3.1-1 as the previous release. 
> 
> What's the best way to do this? Should I create override.hint, with 
> 
> keep: 3.3.1-1
> replace-versions: 3.4.0-1
> 
> ? This seems as though it might be right, but one question I have is, will
> override.hint persist in future releases unless I replace it?

Or, should I just set

prev: 3.3.1-1

in fish.cygport, and let cygport and calm handle it from there?