Because the original upload was rejected with a message about the md5sum for <package>.orig.tar.gz doesn't match <package>.dsc... and the .orig.tar.gz was never uploaded because the build defaulted to a binary only. <shrug>
Rich Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 07:42:08PM -0500, Rich Sahlender wrote: > > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > is your debian version 1? as in source-<version>-1.deb? A source upload > > > is > > > only created for the 1 (maybe also 0, I forget) release. > > > > Ah, that must be it. No, it was orphaned and I just picked it up. The last > > source upload by prior maintainer was at -1x something. I guess one MUST > > use -sa on first build as new maintainer if it's only for patches and not > > a major revision. I didn't see that in the docs anywhere and didn't > > understand why I needed -sa if I didn't use -b for binary only. > > Why do you need to upload the original source code again in this case? > > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome. >
