[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) writes: > Sounds like that makes it unanimous against me.
Nope. I actually disagree with the ftp admins on this one. I tried sending some comments out last night, not sure where they went... perhaps I mis- addressed the message or something. I'm away from home, and it was late after a long day. I believe that we must have the ability to remove an orig.tar.gz and all derived objects from the archive under certain circumstances which have already been articulated by others. If the current toolset doesn't support that, it should be fixed. Once an existing orig.tar.gz and all derived objects have been purged, I can see no technical reason to require that a new upload use different filenames. Since all of the tools that we use and care about that involve orig.tar.gz files check md5sums, and since the lamest mirroring tool I know of uses filename and modification date as the test for whether to copy something, I really can't see any negative side effects to allowing a replacement package to be uploaded with the same filenames after a purge has occurred. Having said all that... Uploading a new orig.tar.gz with a tweaked upstream version number clearly isn't onerous. While it should not be necessary, if the current archive management toolset can't do the right things, were I Branden I'd get on with uploading an orig.tar.gz with new filename and move on to the next issue. Bdale
