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Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place
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Nicolas Petton |
Subject: |
Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:36:19 +0200 |
Mark H Weaver writes:
> I've downloaded emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz and the corresponding .sig from
> alpha.gnu.org twice, and they are different. Both are signed by Nicolas
> Petton's public key (7C207910). See below for the differences.
>
> It's bad practice to modify tarball releases without changing the
> version number. Please don't do it. Among other things, it breaks
> distributions such as GNU Guix that include cryptographic hashes of all
> source tarballs.
I'm sorry, that's my fault.
The previous tarball had a small issue that was fixed, and I just
updated the tarball without increasing the version number. I won't do
that again.
Nico
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