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Re: [PATCH] setup.exe & different archives for the same version of the app


On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:58:48AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 05:02, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> <grumpy old-man voice>
>> 2. If somebody changed packaging from .gz to .bz2 without bumping the 
>> release number, it was a mistake.  Easily fixable -- maintainer should 
>> release new version.
>
>Actually, they need to delete the old one completely, or else it'll
>still be there (and confused) in prev. But yes I agree.

I've lost the thread here.

Was there a specific package that this happened to?  I did this for
cygwin-1.3.2 without changing the -n suffix.  I didn't realize at the
time that this would cause a problem but I can't believe that we'd
be worrying about this now.

I also moved newlib-man out of the cygwin directory and into its own
directory.  I didn't change the suffix there either, but I've just done
that as well.  I also recompressed it as .bz2 from .gz.

Is there something here that 'upset' should be checking for?  Should I
be issuing a warning if a file suddenly changes from .gz to .bz2?  Or,
is the new code in setup.exe going to handle that automatically?

cgf


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