On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:32:59PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Yesterday I accidentally uploaded an elvis-tiny package to
> master with 'Distribution: stable unstable' and 'Urgency: high'.
> I corrected that today with a new version that just went
> to unstable with urgency=low, but ofcourse the bad version
> needs to be removed from the archive.
Bad packages uploaded to stable end up in proposed-updates and
(theoretically) get rejected by the release manager when he eventually
gets round to making a point release.
Bad packages uploaded to unstable get replaced, not removed: after all,
people may have update to them, and if the package was bad, they'll need
to upgrade, which they'll only do if a package with a later version is
uploaded. (Which, it seems, you've done)
You're welcome to file a bug (against ftp.debian.org) about the stable
upload if you like; prefix it with [POTATO] (or add a "potato" tag)
to make sure it's noticed.
Cheers,
aj
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