You *should* not change upstream tarballs. Sometimes, we have to. There is no good way to change the upstream tarball without changing the version number. Arguably, thats a feature. Maybe use package-2014123.tar.gz if you have to.
There is no point in a spkg-src script if the tarball is not modified. Did you forget how to download files? ;-) Right now, only the package-version.txt timestamp is used in the makefile dependency calculation. So you have to add a .p<X> to the version number there (but not in the tarball) to trigger a rebuild if necessary. (*) Feel free to strip out the old changelog from the SPKG.txt file, but please no autogenerated patches that do it globally. I'm against boilerplate copy-pasta in spkg-check/spkg-install files to check that we are really being called from Sage. (*) (*) these really ought to be addressed in future changes to the build system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
