Comments on: xkeyboard-config 1.1: (nearly) failed release

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:16:55 +0000

Lads, hopefully I learned the lesson:)

2Etienne: you are welcome:)

By: Étienne Bersac

Étienne Bersac — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:43:53 +0000

Thank you for providing the updated mac french layout

Cheers !

By: Mart Raudsepp

Mart Raudsepp — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:28:51 +0000

I concur. Please never ever recreate tarballs that have been already released to public. It causes major headaches to distributions. For example we get a checksum of the tarball and include it in our Manifest files – if you reupload these checksums will be wrong and the package will NOT work. Furthermore, if the mirroring system has already pulled the first tarball, there will be no manifest breakages for most people as they are getting the tarball from the mirror and we will never know there is a fixed version of the same versioned tarball out there. Not to mention that even if we do find out about it, it’s a major headache to get fixed, because of all the original (broken) tarballs floating around on the mirrors. Brown paper bag releases are good for your soul, and especially ours

By: xxx

xxx — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:04:10 +0000

Never ever replace tarballs. This is so stupid just because release managers have some weird objections about incrementing version number. This really doesn’t hurt

By: Lasse Bigum

Lasse Bigum — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:17:30 +0000

I *think* this might have caused my Xorg to blow up

I could login, but there was some strange behaviour and then Gnome always promptly crashed.

Removing the keyboard section from my xorg.conf worked, and so did removing xorg.conf altogether, but what a mess it was (and is!).

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:13:52 +0000

Mark yes you’re right. I thought about microrelease actually myselft…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:06:45 +0000

I appreciate that you’re telling people about this so we have a chance to re-create our packages, but another time could you please do like all the well-behaving projects and do a microversion release, i.e. 1.1.1?