On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:43:51 -0500, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:08:22PM -0500, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > 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).
But this happens now all the time anyway. This isn't a *real* example, but it could happen that: I find myself downloading all the X .debs because the maintainer decides to make a minor dependency change. If you really want to solve this problem, seperate the meta-data out into a seperate component, or do a sane diff format for upgrades, or something. -itai
