On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 09:20:49PM +0100, Romain Porte wrote: > 2020-03-16 20:52 CET, Adam Borowski: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 01:02:38PM +0100, Romain Porte wrote: > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=952954 > > > > The main obstacle being the FontLab format problem, and I'm not very > > knowledgeable about it. Unless there's some free tool that can read that > > format and convert it (possibly in multiple hops) to TrueType, the font > > can't enter the main archive. > > > > It would be greatly preferred to find a solution, but if one can't be > > found, the "contrib" archive can be used. For that, you'd change > > "Section: fonts" to "Section: contrib/fonts". > > So that was it! It was really unclear for me what the options we had, as > I am very new to the ecosystem I did not think about changing the > Section to contrib/fonts in order to "fix" this issue. > > As we do not find a compromise for main inclusion, I am fine for this > package to go to contrib. I can explain the why in the debian/copyright > file as suggested by Lintian when I have changed the section.
While I, and many others, don't like that, it's an acceptable solution. > But just after that I received an email saying that the package could > not be updated: > > > Hello, > > > > Unfortunately your package "fonts-jetbrains-mono" was rejected because > > of the following reason: > > > > An upload with the same version but different distribution exists on > > mentors. If you wish to upload this version for an other > > distribution, delete the old one. > > > > Please try to fix it and re-upload. Thanks, > > So I deleted the whole package (all revisions) in the mentors web > interface (cannot be done directly on command line? I think --force on > dput would not help here as it is mentors-specific). Right, good so far. > But now when I am retrying to republish the package in mentors I get the > following: > > > $ dput mentors fonts-jetbrains-mono_1.0.3-1_amd64.changes > > Package has already been uploaded to mentors on mentors.debian.net > > Nothing more to do for fonts-jetbrains-mono_1.0.3-1_amd64.changes > > And… basically reproduced it! This is why I have bumped the debian > revision between -1 and -2 in the first place in my first uploads. IIRC the message already includes a hint: you need to delete the fonts-jetbrains-mono_1.0.3-1_amd64.upload file. > Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ in the beginning was the boot and root floppies and they were good. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- <willmore> on #linux-sunxi ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
