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Re: Uploading existing source but with different size



On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:33:51PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 12:17:49PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > Actually you don't, there are ways to do that without, but that's ugly.
> > Please bump the version (usually I add a '1' in the +dfsg (a là +dfsg1)
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > in similar cases).
> 
> That *IS* a new version :).

yeah, actually the second sentece was totally disassociated from the
first.  The first sentece was referring to the fact that you could use a
different compression program for the newer debian revision, and upload
that differently-compressed tarball.
For example, it's possible to do a -1 upload with a
foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz and a -2 upload with a foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.xz, and
the debian archive would happily keep both near (with -1 referring to
the .gz and the -2 referring to the .xz), and the actual version
wouldn't change.
Though, that's really ugly, and I always get mad when I notice such
thing.

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