On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote:
> So I would not worry too much about it: It is not worth the cost of > hosting a huge number of tarballs permanently (or to convince > upstream to let them be hosted by github for every single version, > only because one cannot theoretically exclude that a similar thing > won't ever happen again). Yes, for the transition period (until all > github servers use a new enough version) a solution for the few > involved tarballs has to be found (like temporarily hosting on > devspace). But after this period it is only a question of updating the > checksum once for the involved packages. Agreed. I use this GitHub feature quite a lot and I've only ever seen this happen maybe once? Even then, I think it might have been one of the additional downloads rather than the git archives, which upstream had probably replaced without bumping. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
