On 7 Jan 2001, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Jason,
> The byacc upstream tarball on ftp.debian.org 52916 bytes long, but on
> my development system, it compresses to 52930 bytes. (There hasn't
> been an upload of this package in about a year, shame on me.) I need
> to do an upload to fix several bugs, there have been no upstream
> changes (I think it's effectively abandoned), but my uploads are
> rejected because of the different file sizes.
>
> I've tried forcing a source upload, but dinstall complains that it
> can't remove the existing upstream source archive.
>
> Should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org, or alter the filesize and
> md5sum in the .changes and .dsc, resign and upload that? Is there
> anything else I could do?
apt-get source byacc
and you have the old .tar.gz. (Or is there a good reason for a newly
compressed tarball?)
> jason
cu,
Adrian
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A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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