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upload orig tarball only once for multiple source packages?

Asked by Braden Pellett

For a given project I have one source package per ubuntu series, which all use the same orig tarball. When I use dput to upload the source packages, the same orig tarball gets uploaded for each series. Is there a way to prevent this?

For that matter, I've been having to up the package version as I try to fix some packaging errors, and of course these all depend on the same orig tarball, yet dput uploads that same orig tarball again.

So I suppose in general: is there a way to tell dput that it doesn't need to upload the orig tarball because I know it already exists on the server?

Thanks for any help...

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Best William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

dput will upload every file listed in the *_source.changes file. That's usually generated by debuild, which takes the '-sd' option (the inverse of '-sa') to tell it to only include the diff, not the tarball.

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Braden Pellett (dabrado) said : 		#2

Ahh... I had used that option before but messed up and dput'ed the -sd .changes files before the -sa one... sigh...

Thanks much, it is working!

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Braden Pellett (dabrado) said : 		#3

Thanks William Grant, that solved my question.