Re: reuploading a source package (same version)

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Le mardi 22 février 2011 à 09:58 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
>   I am reading the following bug:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611840
> 
>   I clearly did the first upload:
> 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/paraview/news/20100819T093347Z.html
> 
>   However I do not understand what could have happen that I did not
> upload paraview 3.8.1 tarball (maybe I used a release candidate...).
>   Anyway to solve this issue I need to re-upload the same package
> (same version!), but I fear ftp will drop it since md5sum will not
> match.
>   does anyone knows what to do in this case ?
I guess you would have to ask for a removal and then reupload it
(however, it might have to go through NEW again).
Otherwise, the lazy way would be to wait for a new upstream release.


Sylvestre