Re: Debian violates GPL?

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Jim Pick wrote:
> Actually, a few weeks ago, I accidentally uploaded an .orig.tar.gz
> (for gnome-libs) that differed from what was already installed in the
> ftp archive.  Luckily, it got rejected.  So I'm not sure that it is
> possible to have multiple .orig.tar.gz files with the same name.

It is possible; I have done it several times, when converting a
package to pristine source.  The .dsc file contains the md5sum of the
.orig.tar.gz file.  Probably you uploaded a file that did not match
the md5sum in your .dsc file.

Richard Braakman