On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:00:11PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was that I use > > cvs-buildpackage to make builds easier; if I have to futz about > > copying the old .tar.gz into place it could be a little inconvenient, > > but it's much better than not being able to upload it at all. > > .orig.tar.gz should never change between debian revisions. Pre-pool > dinstall used to allow it, which sucked. dinstall no longer allows it.
What sucks more is when you have an un-pristine orig.tar.gz which needs to be changed, but dinstall changed not to allow changes and additionally made the package unbuildable. :| -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
