[GRASS-dev] 6.4.6 menudata.xml build error

Maciej Sieczka msieczka at sieczka.org
Mon Sep 5 04:15:40 PDT 2016


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.

Maciek

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