Re: gEDA-dev: gEDA/gaf 20060906 source tarballs released

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
>>> The geda-gschem package fails to compile on SuSE 9.3.
>>> The compiler is gcc-3.3.5. It doesn't like the missing "static void" 
>>> statment in the definition of the function print_dialog_get_property 
>>> in x_print.c.
> 
> 
> I hate to say this, but I found and fixed that bug in CVS.   The
> problem was that the fcn print_dialog_get_property had mysteriously
> lost its declaration.   I put it back.
> 
> Unfortunately, I fixed it *after* Ales
> produced his release.  On the other hand, I *did* fix it for the
> gEDA/gaf release I put on the gEDA CD, which you can get from the gEDA
> download site.  The CD release you want is 20060907.
> 
> I'll let Ales decide if he wants to respin the tarballs. . . . .
> Personally, I'd just replace the geda-gschem tarball with a fixed one,
> but wouldn't bump the rev date since it's such a hassle.

Please no!! A number of packaging systems store cryptographic hashes of 
distfiles.  Changing them without changing the name always triggers a 
big headache for package maintainers.  What happens is some users have 
the old ones, some have the new ones, some amount of complaing later the 
packager realizes something has changed.  Then you get to down load the 
new files, do diffs to figure out what happened, and now users with the 
old files suddenly get complaints about checksum mismatches....

-Dan



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