There should be a happy medium ground where *ANY* change to a deb -- that effects what is actually installed on a system when the package is installed, results in a version update. But, a "internal signature by the archive maintainer" would not, assuming that is in the deb header and does not effect what is actually installed. I don't see the argument against this.
Fred Reimer Eclipsys Corporation > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:44 PM > To: Itai Zukerman > Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org; debian-policy@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: New field proposed, UUID > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:08:22PM -0500, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > > Sooner or later sigs will start traveling around with > .deb's (that's > > > another discussion, save it for later, it is coming > soon). When those sigs > > > are changed or updates by the archive maintainers or the > release manager, > > > the md5sum of the package will change, but the UUID will > remain the same. > > > > I would prefer that *any* modification to a .deb increment its > > version. > > That would be bad. Do that and then the Packages file needs > regenerating, > the package needs to be re-signed by everyone, and things > will get upgraded, > and apt[1] will redownload it all over again, just because of > something > changing like an internal signature by the archive maintainer (think > signing all packages for a release). > > Ben > > [1] I know apt will do that now, but using a UUID, means apt > can use that > instead, and only upgrade packages who's version is newer, or > who's UUID > has changed (if the version remains the same). > > This also gives us another good reason for UUID's. We can now have a > mechanism to do binary-only uploads for ports, without changing the > version number (if you think binary-only uploads are harmless with a > version change, then you haven't noticed the problems with > sparc-potato > when I did a binary-only upload of gnome stuff to fix some > dep problems). > > -- > > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====--------- > ---=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- > Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======--- > ----=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
