On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Someone pointed out that the dirvish 1.2.1 tar files and the > subversion files differed slightly, resulting in bad MD5's for > some distributions. There were small spelling differences in the > subversion headers, the CHANGES file, and the TODO.html file. I > updated TODO.html in the subversion repository, and rebuilt the > dirvish-1.2.1.tar file and the associated md5sum file. Hopefully > I got all that right. There should be no functional changes at > all in dirvish, and I hope the distributions downstream will > pick up on the small changes and the new md5sum checksum.
It would be better to release this as a new version number, as it's not possible to replace the existing tar.gz file in Debian if the version number is not changed. (The reasoning behind that is that if the file name is the same, why are the contents changed; besides, you then have two versions of the same file with different checksums, so how do you tell which is the correct one? If you downloaded a version some time ago, and you check it again against what's in the Debian archives, your version seems to suddenly have changed. What happened?! Is your system compromised? etc.) It may be worth releasing a version that changes the dreaded "file has disappeared" error into a warning. Paul Slootman _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
