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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:52:53 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Ghostscript 6.51 release (was Re: Package maintainer release procedures)
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In-Reply-To: <15174.46421.220140.372767@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com>; from alcocer@helixdigital.com on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:08:05AM -0700

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:08:05AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote:
>>>>>> "Chuck" == Charles S Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> writes:
>
>    Chuck> I converted them from .gz to .bz2 to save ~1.2M on
>    Chuck> download, and I also noticed that the gs.exe binary was not
>    Chuck> stripped.
>
>    Chuck> However, when I unpacked and stripped the gs.exe, it didn't
>    Chuck> really shrink the binary size enough to justify "re-owning"
>    Chuck> all the files in the tarballs as "cwilson" vs. "alcocer".
>    Chuck> So, I didn't adjust that.
>
>Chuck, on second thought, I can repackage the binary tar file again as
>a bzip2 file with a stripped gs.exe.  Please let me know if you'd like
>me to do this.
>
>Oh, and thanks for catching the missing release number suffix in the
>filenames; I'll have to fix the script I used to generate the .tar.gz
>files.
>
>Thanks for all your help.

I think I would prefer that you fix up your package and resubmit it to Chuck,
Dario.

Thanks everybody for making this a cooperative project.

cgf