sometimes resource alters but version numbers don't

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:30:57PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>fergus schrieb:
>>Recently 23 files *.tar.bz2 under release/X11/ altered and so did the
>>matching md5sums in setup.ini. (So these were real changes, not just a
>>case of a buggy setup.ini catching up with release/.)
>>
>>However the version numbers did not alter, and so users with the earlier
>>download i.j.old are not updated to i.j.new. In some sense this must
>>matter, otherwise the substitution would not have been made or the
>>version numbers would have been incremented.
>>
>>There are precedents for this, not under X11/, and anyway it seems to me
>>to be a setup issue not specifically cygwin-x.
>>
>>A while ago there were objections posted to this list along the lines
>>"oh God, another day, another version of xemacs" and I can see that
>>there is a class of improvements (spelling, minor packaging, ...) that
>>do not really make a new download worthwhile, let alone essential.
>>Obviously maintainers can behave as they want, and maybe uploading to
>>the mirrors is the best way of making sure such improvements are not
>>forgotten, but it does lead to some disconcerting mismatches for those
>>sad nutcases (e.g. me) who spend far too much time on housekeeping.
>>
>>Have I described correctly what has happened here (minor improvements)
>>or has something actually gone wrong with setup.ini <-> release/X11/?
>
>that explains something.
>that could have been caught by an improved upset.
>unfortunately the maintainer doesn't accept patches.
>  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00560.html

As hard as this is to believe, the changes to X11 packages were discussed
(drum roll please) ON THE cygwin-xfree list!  Can you believe it?  What
are the odds?

The reason that the version numbers did not change is that the contents
of the packages did not change.  The .tar.bz2 files were repacked in a
different order to see if this solved an installation problem.  There
is no need for anyone to download these new packages.

There was nothing untoward to detect here, no need for an "improved"
upset, and no need to panic.

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