[GRASS-dev] 6.4.6 menudata.xml build error

[Veronica Andreo]

On Sep 5, 2016 2:11 PM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> > On 05/09/16 13:15, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> >>
> >> W dniu 05.09.2016 o 10:45, Markus Neteler pisze:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Maciej Sieczka <msieczka at sieczka.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> W dniu 05.09.2016 o 01:32, Anna Petrášová pisze:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but nothing will change in svn (except for the howto_release.txt),
so
> >>>>> can't you just make a new package?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If you asked me - release is meant to be immutable. But please do
what
> >>>> you think is right.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> No idea what's right.
> >>> The tarball was wrong, the SVN tag is right.
> >>
> >>
> >> So this is a bit less of an issue then.
> >>
> >>> What is the best practice for packaging errors? I remember that there
> >>> were issues once in a PROJ4 tarball as well. But I don't recall how
> >>> they dealt with it.
> >>>
> >>> A new full release of 6 would be a major PITA, with hours of work for
> >>> me which I just spent recently on this topic.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yup, the PITA factor should never be understimated; but easily is from
a
> >> distance.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the new tarball. It builds fine. Hopefully nobody picked up
> >> the old one for their builds.
> >
> >
> > I think this is the major issue. Packagers who packaged immediately
after
> > the announcement might have used the tar ball.
>
> Maybe yes but
> - I didn't announce it yet as usual
> - the Web pages still point to the old 6.4.5 version
>
> > We should at least announce on all lists the fact that there was an
error in
> > the tarball and that it is now corrected.
>
> I did that earlier today in a README next to the tarball.
>
> Will now edit the CMS announcement and update the download pages to
> point to the new 6.4.6 (I meant to do that earlier, luckily it did not
> happen yet :) )

Ops! I did change the link in the main page of the wiki some days ago...
sorry... I thought I was helping with that :P

Vero
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