On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What you say is already the case, see adobereader. But it is not what the > flag was used in the past: it indicated if a package was re-released > with the same version but only "fixed" on either sparc or i386. This > is IMHO unnecessary and confusing.
That is one viewpoint. However, a different viewpoint, is that requiring users to re-download the other side.. the "non-fixed" version... when exactly *nothing* has changed in the "newer" package, is even more unneccessary. Of the two viewpoints, I think that triggering thousands of redownloads for no possible good, is worse than the slight odditity of marking the "fixed" side specially. Which is why we have historically supported this sort of thing, above and beyond the benefit that the maintainer only has to compile and reupload "half" the packages to be resubmitted. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
