developers-reference: patch re: replacing files on the ftp site

reassign 150392 developers-reference
retitle 150392 developers-reference: patch re: replacing files on the ftp site
severity 150392 wishlist
thanks

Branden, if you weren't so obsessed with your political maneuvering, you
might've realised it'd take less effort and time to write a paragraph
about this yourself and send it off to the developers-reference
maintainers. Of course, maybe your goal's to embarrass ftpmaster or to
waste the the tech-ctte's time or similar, in which case I guess doing
a patch wouldn't do you much good *shrug*.

$ diff -u developers-reference.sgml{.orig,}
--- developers-reference.sgml.orig      Thu Jun 20 19:54:44 2002
+++ developers-reference.sgml   Thu Jun 20 20:05:41 2002
@@ -2355,6 +2355,17 @@
 against <tt>ftp.debian.org</tt> asking to remove the package with the
 obsolete name. Do not forget to properly reassign the package's bugs
 at the same time.
+       <p>
+At other times, you may make a mistake in constructing your package, and
+wish to replace it. The only way to do this is to increase the version
+number, and upload a new version. The old version will be expired in
+the usual manner.  Note that this applies to each part of your package,
+include the sources: if you wish to replace the upstream source tarball
+of your pakcage, you will need to upload it with a different version. An
+easy possibility is to replace <file>foo_1.00.orig.tar.gz</file> with
+<file>foo_1.00+0.orig.tar.gz</file>. This restriction gives each file
+on the ftp site a unique name, which helps to ensure consistency across the
+mirror network.
 
       <sect1 id="orphaning">Orphaning a package
        <p>

It's against the 3.0 source.

Cheers,
aj

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