On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 10:06:34 AM UTC, Ralf Stephan wrote:
>
> On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 10:51:47 AM UTC+1, Han Frederic wrote:
>>
>> We had this argument already. If you prefer to keep it this way, please 
>>>> provide us a  VCS (git preferred) repo
>>>> off which we can label releases by the latest commit in the master 
>>>> branch, or something like this.
>>>> This way at least meaningful bug reports can be filed. Please...
>>>> We (or in fact any Linux/OSX distribution system) cannot work with 
>>>> different tarballs that are named the same, we do not have tools to 
>>>> support 
>>>> this. Each tarball change without name change triggers an alert screaming 
>>>> that it has been tampered with.
>>>>
>>>
>> But the giac spkg is always built from these sources via the spkg-src:
>>
>> http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/debian/dists/stable/main/source/
>> and they have a meaningful name. Ex: spkg 1.2.2.103 is from source 
>> 1.2.2-103.
>>
>
> I think numbering changes at level 4 are the problem that Dima (quote 
> above) meant.
> None of the toolos support it.
>

I was talking about silently changing a tarfile, without changing its name 
at all.
 

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