On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:57:45AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I'm told by folks familiar with katie that using an epoch won't work, > because epochs do not appear on .orig.tar.gz filenames. The upstream > tarball would thus remain un-renamed from the perspective of the katie > database.
Ugh.. good point. > > Any better ideas? > > Why is the right thing to do not to consider asking the archive > maintainers to grant my request? Because this makes it rather difficult to distinguish between the right tarball and the wrong one. Sure, you can tell a human "look for the file with this number of bytes", but a lot of this stuff is automated. Thanks, -- Raul
