Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <419741F1.5060009@x-ray.at> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:30:57 +0100 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: sometimes resource alters but version numbers don't References: <1100429074 DOT 2589 DOT 13 DOT camel AT 82-40-123-11 DOT cable DOT ubr01 DOT pert DOT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <1100429074.2589.13.camel@82-40-123-11.cable.ubr01.pert.blueyonder.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/