Re: replacing the original tarball (libconvert-binhex-perl)
* Niko Tyni (ntyni@iki.fi) :
> Hm, I thought you couldn't replace an orig tarball in the archive.
> Sure, you can include it in an upload using dpkg-buildpackage -sa,
> but I think the upload will be rejected.
>
> >From the Developer's Reference, 5.9.3 "Replacing or renaming packages" [1]:
>
> [...] if you wish to replace the upstream source tarball of your package,
> you will need to upload it with a different version. An easy possibility
> is to replace foo_1.00.orig.tar.gz with foo_1.00+0.orig.tar.gz.
Indeed, I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the pointer, let's use your
way then.
Cheers,
--
Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@sukria.net>
0x1EE5DD34
Debian http://www.debian.org
Backup Manager http://www.backup-manager.org
Reply to: