Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:00:11PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was that I use
> > cvs-buildpackage to make builds easier; if I have to futz about
> > copying the old .tar.gz into place it could be a little inconvenient,
> > but it's much better than not being able to upload it at all.
>
> .orig.tar.gz should never change between debian revisions. Pre-pool
> dinstall used to allow it, which sucked. dinstall no longer allows it.
What sucks more is when you have an un-pristine orig.tar.gz which needs to
be changed, but dinstall changed not to allow changes and additionally made
the package unbuildable. :|
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