On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:14:52PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
And one important consequence of this is that packagers must *never*
change
files without changing the release number, once they have gone to the
mirrors - because setup.exe will be telling users that something odd has
happened - not just silently ignoring the inconsistency.
I don't agree with this. As you noticed, I recently repackaged some of
the xorg stuff to test a theory about why X installs were failing. If
I'd bumped the version number then it would have been an indication of a
new version of the software -- which was not the case.
In this case, setup.ini correctly represented files available for the
distribution and the files on the users disk were not wrong. I don't
think that setup should complain about this unless the user specifically
requests a redownload or reinstall.