Re: [COMPLAIN] a patched 1.0.2 has been silently reuploaded (was: 1.0.2 release)

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com>]

Glenn Maynard <g_sf@zewt.org> writes:

> > we only found it because some user complained that cooker
> > alsa-lib-1.0.2 package was broken whereas downloaded tarball from
> > ftp.alsa-project.org wasn't.  people should at least be warned
> > about the reupload.
> 
> This should go without saying.  I don't want to have to spend time
> explaining to users that their 1.0.2 isn't *really* the latest
> release, much less the confusion of not being able to tell from the
> version what version it really is (confusion of that nature in other
> code has, in the past, stolen many hours of my time at a stretch).

thanks for supporting this. now if jaroslav and takashi could promise
they won't do again, i would be a very happy packager :-)

> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401271411120.3133@pnote.perex-int.cz>
> "I'm recreating the alsa-lib package right now."

that's what i would call an announce or a warning.



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