Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball
Just use the old one from ftp.debian.org.
If the .orig.tar.gz already exists in .. (relative to the source dir), a new
one won't be generated.
-brad
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:15:46PM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The byacc upstream tarball on ftp.debian.org 52916 bytes long, but on
> my development system, it compresses to 52930 bytes. (There hasn't
> been an upload of this package in about a year, shame on me.) I need
> to do an upload to fix several bugs, there have been no upstream
> changes (I think it's effectively abandoned), but my uploads are
> rejected because of the different file sizes.
>
> I've tried forcing a source upload, but dinstall complains that it
> can't remove the existing upstream source archive.
>
> Should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org, or alter the filesize and
> md5sum in the .changes and .dsc, resign and upload that? Is there
> anything else I could do?
>
> jason
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