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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:30:57 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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fergus schrieb:
> Recently 23 files *.tar.bz2 under release/X11/ altered and so did the
> matching md5sums in setup.ini. (So these were real changes, not just a
> case of a buggy setup.ini catching up with release/.)
> 
> However the version numbers did not alter, and so users with the earlier
> download i.j.old are not updated to i.j.new. In some sense this must
> matter, otherwise the substitution would not have been made or the
> version numbers would have been incremented.
> 
> There are precedents for this, not under X11/, and anyway it seems to me
> to be a setup issue not specifically cygwin-x.
> 
> A while ago there were objections posted to this list along the lines
> "oh God, another day, another version of xemacs" and I can see that
> there is a class of improvements (spelling, minor packaging, ...) that
> do not really make a new download worthwhile, let alone essential.
> Obviously maintainers can behave as they want, and maybe uploading to
> the mirrors is the best way of making sure such improvements are not
> forgotten, but it does lead to some disconcerting mismatches for those
> sad nutcases (e.g. me) who spend far too much time on housekeeping.
> 
> Have I described correctly what has happened here (minor improvements)
> or has something actually gone wrong with setup.ini <-> release/X11/?

that explains something.
that could have been caught by an improved upset.
unfortunately the maintainer doesn't accept patches.
   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00560.html
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Reini Urban
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