> >> Why is the right thing to do not to consider asking the archive > >> maintainers to grant my request?
"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raul> Because this makes it rather difficult to distinguish between the right > Raul> tarball and the wrong one. On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:57:49AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > There should be no wrong tarball on the archive, so I am not sure why > this is an issue. Why is such discrimination required, anyway? The wrong tarball *is* in the archive. We need to discriminate in the following ways: [1] We need to make sure the correct tarball is in place. [2] We need to make sure the incorrect tarball is removed. The "pretend the correct tarball is the incorrect tarball by giving it the same name" doesn't let us ensure [1], and makes it harder to detect where [2] is a problem. Yeah, it might just happen to work [depending on exactly what's implemented on the mirrors], but that doesn't make it the right solution. Before I'd be comfortable with "overwrite old tarball" as policy, I'd want: [*] To understand how we deal with the invalid .dsc issue [*] To understand what's wrong with a new version of the tarball [*] To hear from the admin folks that we're not trashing their plans (or, at least: I'd want to give them a chance to respond before doing something that violates their .dsc interface). > Why is it that Branden and I are the only ones worried about us > violating copyright law? Bogus question. I'm worried. Thanks, -- Raul
