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Re: hosed build-arch and build-indep



On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:55:00AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> 1. Shouldn't lintian complain about this when Architecture is set to
> 'any' and binary-arch is empty but binary-indep is crowded?

File a wishlist bug against lintian.

> 2. Yesterday evening I uploaded another (new) python program. Same
> problems, this time because the package got a C-library added since I
> first packaged it and I didn't think of this :( 
> This package is now in incoming waiting for the ftp-admin to add it to
> the override file. Should I
> 	- wait until it is in the archive and upload a fixed version
> 	  then?
> 	- delete the files from incoming and upload Debian Revision -1
> 	  again?
> 	- upload the new -2 revision now?

General principle: never overwrite a file already in the incoming
queue.  Delete the files from incoming and upload a version -2.  (You
should use the -sa option to dpkg-buildpackage.)

   Julian

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