uploading for multiple architectures

[Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>]

[or, "curiosity killed the cat" ;-)]

Today I updated a package of mine (rc) that was failing to build on
PPC. after I built a copy on my own machine, I used voltaire to check
that the fix did in fact work. Since I had .debs for two
architectures, I figured I would upload both of them.

However, I soon discovered that gzip apparenly creates different
compressed files for the same input on i386 and ppc. Thus, the diff.gz
md5sums didn't match and uploading the ppc-built version would cause
the i386 one to fail dinstall -n and vice versa.

My question is, how do people handle this? If I should just chill out
and wait for the autobuilders to do their work (probably a "yes",
that's what I'm doing today), what exactly goes on behind the scenes
when a diff.gz with a new md5sum goes into Incoming? does it just
replace mine?

-- 
things change.
decklin@red-bean.com