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Re: dupload oddities



On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:41:37AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:04:12AM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> > Since this is a new revision, if I dupload dietlibc_0.11-2_i386.changes it
> > won't upload the original tarball which is fine, except that somehow, the
> > first revision in pool directory looks like this:
> > 
> >    dietlibc_0.11-1.dsc
> >    dietlibc_0.11-1.tar.gz
> >    dietlibc-dev_0.11-1_i386.deb
> >    dietlibc-dev_0.11-1_mips.deb
> >    dietlibc-dev_0.11-1_sparc.deb
> > 
> > which causes the upload to be rejected since there is no
> > dietlibc_0.11.orig.tar.gz:
> >
> > Any ideas how I can get the original tarball there so the upload won't be
> > rejected? And also, why did the original tarbal and diff get merged in the
> > pool?
> 
> Blunty, you screwed up the 0.11-1 build. Bump the upstream version
> number (append a + or something) and upload that.

No need for that. Just build with the -sa option to dpkg-buildpackage.
dinstall will happily replace a .tar.gz with an .orig.tar.gz with the
same version number, because the filename has still changed.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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