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uploading a newly packaged version not possible

Asked by estellnb

  I have updated bundsteg-1.2-2 to bundsteg-1.2-3 so that it should now build correctly on Ubuntu hosts. Also I have fixed some packaging issues. However when I wanted to upload the new package I got the following error:
  How can I delete an already uploaded package?

[~estellnb/ubuntu/elstel] bundsteg_1.2-3_source.changes (Rejected)
Rejected:
File bundsteg_1.2.orig.tar.gz already exists in packages for elstel, but uploaded version has different contents. See more information about this error in https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/UploadErrors.
Files specified in DSC are broken or missing, skipping package unpack verification.

bundsteg (1.2-3) jammy; urgency=low

  * changed debain/rules to compile without OBS under Debian and Ubuntu
    does not reference ../SOURCES/ any more

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estellnb (estellnb) said : 		#1

found how to do it; thanks for your support!

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estellnb (estellnb) said : 		#2
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estellnb (estellnb) said : 		#3

I had successfully deleted the package and it was not more there in the web interface but now uploading has failed with the same error; please have a look!

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estellnb (estellnb) said : 		#4

https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/UploadErrors
"Launchpad never permits reusing version numbers in the same archive, even if they have been deleted. "
It is not the same version; it is 1.2-3 instead of 1.2-2. Please see on how we can resolve that!

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estellnb (estellnb) said : 		#5

I could exclude the src.tar.gz from being uploaded by modifying the changes file but now this won´t help me because the file has been deleted in the repository. Please help!!

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

"It is not the same version; it is 1.2-3 instead of 1.2-2"
The problem is the original source, which is bundsteg_1.2.orig.tar.gz in both cases.

The orig file from the previous upload (Wed, 24 Jul 2019) is still there in the moment: https://launchpad.net/~estellnb/+archive/ubuntu/elstel/+sourcefiles/bundsteg/1.2-2/bundsteg_1.2.orig.tar.gz

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estellnb (estellnb) said : 		#7

Thanks, that has helped.

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estellnb (estellnb) said : 		#8

I have now a similar problem with xchroot. I have changed the packaging to conform to standards as outlayed by Debian/lintian. This has required me to have two different .src.tgz files: xchroot_2.7.4.orig.tar.gz, xchroot_2.7.4.orig-website.tar.gz. The former xchroot_2.7.4.orig.tar.gz was an archive containing just the two archive files from above. However they are called the same because this is the name required by the Debian build system. Could you delete the xchroot package in a way that I can re-upload a file called xchroot_2.7.4.orig.tar.gz?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#9

No, once you've uploaded a file to an archive then you can never replace it with a file with the same name but different contents. If you need to change the contents, you must bump the version number, even if that means that it's temporarily out of sync with the upstream version number. The convention in such cases is to use a version such as 2.7.4+repack1-1, which makes it clear that it's still really upstream 2.7.4 while changing the file names (xchroot_2.7.4+repack1.orig.tar.gz, etc.).

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