New tarball but same version

[Alain PORTAL]

Le vendredi 29 septembre 2006 14:53, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:43:06 +0200, Alain PORTAL wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > An upstream maintener released a new revision but didn't changed the
> > version number. Of course, this is really bad....
> > Can I overwrite the tarball in cvs with `make new-sources
> > FILES="same_tarball.tar.bz2"`?
>
> You can upload this changed tarball like that just fine, but the old
> tarball will not be overwritten.
>
> Multiple files with the same name but different checksum can _coexist_.
> The lookaside is clever enough to store files based on their
> (filename,checksum) tuple.

So, no conflict possible?
Good thing to know.

But upstream seems to agree to release a new tarball with a correct 
versioning.

Thanks.
Alain
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