Re: RFS : ounit changes REJECTED

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:29:49PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:15:26PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> > source problem ( the file .orig.tar.gz ). The former maintainer, has
> > used a non upstream version. So there is a mismatch in the source of the
> > debian archive and in the source the svn repo. 
> > 
> > I don't really know how to handle this case : should we keep the
> > upstream tarball or should we use the former tarball ?
> 
> You should be able to use the orig.tar.gz in debian already, then build
> your package against that.  I don't think there is a mechanism to do
> anything else.
> 
> FWIW, tar.gz files contain timestamps of creation time, so each time you
> make one, you'll get a different md5sum anyway.

you upload a new upstream version with an a appended or something such.

Friendly,

Sven Luther