[Fwd: Re: atk and odd release practices]

[Chuck Mead]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: atk and odd release practices
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:35:01 +0100
From: Bill Haneman <Bill.Haneman at Sun.COM>
To: csm at lunar-linux.org
CC: Padraig.Obriain at Sun.COM, Nick Hudson <nhudson at lunar-linux.org>,
Terry Chan <tchan at lunar-linux.org>, elaine at lunar-linux.org,	Jason
Johnston <xoritor at lunar-linux.org>,	Auke Kok <sofar at lunar-linux.org>
References: <3F96A316.5000802 at lunar-linux.org>

Hi Chuck:

As a rule we don't upload without changing release versions.  However
occasional system problems may have caused exceptions to this practice.
I cannot comment further since Padraig O'Briain is doing the ATK
releases these days.

regards

Bill

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:32, Chuck Mead wrote:
| Bill,
| ~     I am the leader of the Lunar Linux project and we have lots of
| gnome packages in our module list. Because we are a source based
| distribution we use md5sum's against source files to track versions and
| make sure that our users are getting the correct sources.
|
| Recently we updated atk in our module list and then today there was an
| md5sum error. I checked this and there is a content difference between
| the two which indicates that someone changed the release but left the
| version number the same. A diff shows that there are significant content
| changes in the two tarballs and yet the Changelog says nothing about it.
|
| For small or standalone projects this occurs a lot but for the gnome
| project it occurs to me that this should not be happening. Seems a
| sloppy release practice to me.
|
| Initial Release Version ----> 1.4.1
| md5sum ----> 2ad7c7d6921446226f687bd935df5be5
|
| Changed Release Version ----> 1.4.1
| md5sum ----> d7830bdf1e05d8395794f75097d291be
|
| Any thoughts?
|
| txs! :-)
|
| --
| csm
| Lunar Project Lead

- --
csm
Lunar Project Lead
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQE/lrRPq3bny/5+GAcRAhKTAKCH3BOdC7ojQ/7gZCmRY6KFCFTBIwCfdHvX
NeOJY5yPuuD2ZaAhBb2F6CA=
=mMtt
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----