Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Salut Alain,
i just realized that you seem to have removed a couple of bogus files
from your mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz distribution tarball.
While i certainly appreciate your effort to actively maintain the
mtools software, i should like to respectfully draw your attention
to the fact that changing published distribution files in place
may cause problems for software packagers and redistributors,
even when the changes themselves are apparently harmless. For
example, the OpenBSD ports tree implements automated file size
and checksum tests in order to assure distfile integrity before
using or unpacking any distribution file dowloaded from the Internet.
For that reason, it is generally preferable to publish changed
distribution files under different names even when the changes
themselves are trivial.
How are we going to proceed now?
Is someone going to replace mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz on the OpenBSD
mirror network, patching /usr/ports/sysutils/mtools/distinfo at
the same time?
Thank you very much for your consideration,
Ingo
P.S.
In case i misinterpreted the situation, sorry for the noise...
Yes, indeed a while back I noticed that mtool-3.9.10 contained lots of
crap, and put up a cleaned variant. Sorry for the problems this has
caused, usually it is not in my habit of changing released files after
the fact. I'll shortly release a 3.9.11 (probably until next weekend),
and remove 3.9.10 completely, so that will hopefully clear up the mess...
Alain
