Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

cgf