On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:41:57 +0200 Christoph Haas <haas@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:31:29AM +0200, I wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > > However, the .dsc file uploaded to m.d.n references a > > > different .orig.tar.gz: > > > 8287bfd7e9ef9a507024bf34761791d8 9562064 xracer_0.96.9.orig.tar.gz > > > > I'll look into this later today and probably fix it. > > Now I checked the import script at mentors.debian.net and also did a > few test uploads. If a 'dsc' file mentions an orig tarball then the > old tarball is replaced in every case. So if the package maintainer > would upload a package built with "-sa" (including the orig tarball > even with non-1 revisions) then everything should work well. > > I have no good explanation for the situation Neil mentioned though. It turned out to be due to a broken upload - an FTP connection timeout. (I've been busy finalising the actual upload.) The maintainer used nemesis to keep the next connection alive. > The package maintainer must have uploaded a package with an orig > tarball. But then the orig tarball was changed and an upload without > an orig tarball was done that mentioned the orig tarball though. > > How come the .dsc file mentions an orig file that is not uploaded? All > files mentioned in the .dsc file must be uploaded. I'm confused. Is there some way of detecting a failed FTP upload and removing the corrupted files? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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