Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:36:19 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > 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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