A developer should be able to delete incorrect files
This concerns the PPA at: https:/
I recently uploaded an upstream tarball with my changes file that was not, in fact, the right one. I tried to upload the right one, but it wouldn't let me overwrite it. I requested deletion, so the package and tarball no longer appeared, but I still couldn't upload it (the automatic email said that the tarball still existed, despite being invisible). The suggestion I got on IRC was to start a new PPA... really? Can't I just delete a bad file?
At this point I could not fall back on simply downloading the "bad" tarball and using it for subsequent uploads, because I had requested it for deletion.
It's now seven hours later, and when I try to upload the correct files, I get:
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Rejected:
The source rabbitvcs - 0.12.1-1~hardy is already accepted in ubuntu/hardy and you cannot upload the same version within the same distribution. You have to modify the source version and re-upload.
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Well, there's no package like that in the PPA or in Ubuntu hardy.
This seems incredibly unforgiving... I'm not going to rename the orig tarball and break the workings of the Debian build tools. I'd also rather not move our PPA. But I'm now stuck — I can't upload any new packages with that tarball, or even the same one.
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