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Re: uploaded libstatistics-descriptive-perl



Hi,

Am Freitag, den 11.03.2005, 09:20 -0600 schrieb Carlo U. Segre:
> Dear Joachim:
> 
> I noticed that there was an obsolete watch file in the package and I have 
> changed it now.
Good.

> The final version is now ready for upload.  That 
> presuming that you agree with the notion that the source tarball name 
> should be changed to conform to the binary package name.
> 
> This is the same thing that Gunnar did for the 
> libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl package just a few days ago.
He did? Did he already try an upload?

AFAICT, chaging the source name will make the scripts treat the package
as a new one, meaning that it will have to go through NEW, which takes
quite some time these days. Also, you will have to force
an .orig.tar.gz-upload even though it is not a -1 version. And all kinds
of other horrible stuff :-)

OTOH, there is no problem in having a differing source name, and for
library packages, this is not uncommon. I'd strongly recomment not
changing the source name, but I'm interested in what Gunnar has to say.

Greetings,
Joachim
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