Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:27:02 -0400
> 
> 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.

Thanks.

It was done on purpose, to shorten the release time.  Nicolas did as
instructed.  Distributions should not pick up alpha releases without
asking first.