[GRASS-dev] 6.4.6 menudata.xml build error

[Moritz Lennert]

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.

We should at least announce on all lists the fact that there was an 
error in the tarball and that it is now corrected.

Moritz