xfsprogs/xfsdump release process

[Felix Blyakher]

On Feb 23, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Monday 23 February 2009 11:10:44 Felix Blyakher wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:00:45PM -0600, Felix Blyakher wrote:
>>>> Mike, you're absolutely right here. The config files got into the
>>>> dmapi tarball by mistake, sorry for this. I verified that neither
>>>> xfsprogs nor xfsdump have any extra files. New (clean) dmapi  
>>>> tarball
>>>> will be on the oss site shortly.
>>>
>>> Please don't overwrite already uploaded tarballs.  Let's make a  
>>> 2.2.10
>>> release instead.  We might just use the Makepkgs script for it after
>>> fixing it.  See the question and patch on the list for xfsprogs for
>>> that, haven't checked dmapi works right yet.
>>
>> Didn't think that removing the unneeded files from the package
>> justifies the version bump. It doesn't change anything for people
>> who already downloaded unclean dmapi tarballs.
>> Though, if opinion on this matter is that strong, I'd definitely
>> bump the version, and will use updated Makepkgs.
>
> the problem is for people (like Gentoo) who already fetched the  
> tarball,
> hashed it, and posted the resulting URL/hash to their packaging  
> systems ...

OK, that's definitely convincing.

Felix