[GRASS-dev] 6.4.6 menudata.xml build error

[Markus Neteler]

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 :) )

Markus