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Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:50:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:36:19 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> > 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.
>
> No, it isn't. There's no fault to begin with.
Yes, there is. If a tarball needs to be replaced for whatever reason,
it *must* get a new file name.
Andreas.
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