From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:42:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83iod4v38r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pp7dro0p.fsf@netris.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428651772 3668 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2015 07:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 10 09:42:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YgTaF-0001s7-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:42:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37889 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgTaE-0000Bm-DE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:42:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgTZz-0000BQ-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgTZu-0003Lu-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:38503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgTZu-0003Ll-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMK00500Y9NQ000@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:42:12 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMK0052DYQCQ220@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:42:12 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87pp7dro0p.fsf@netris.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185244 Archived-At: > From: Mark H Weaver > 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.