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- Subject: Re: Lua 5.1 (final,rc) now available
- From: askok@...
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:47:03 +0200 (EET)
Adding to John's..
Some package systems use (or: at least optionally allow) MD5 sums to make sure no-one's been
tampering the tgz. But only some (fink does, dpkg not sure, ipkg does not?).
-asko
Lainaus John Belmonte <john@neggie.net>:
> Erik Hougaard wrote:
> > Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> >
> >> The tarball at http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.1-rc.tar.gz has been
> >> replaced by one containing the fixes suggested so far. Since there
> have
> >> been a few of those, we shall wait a little longer before freezing
> Lua
> >> 5.1.
> >>
> >> Please take a look and send us your comments or post them here.
> >>
> >> Enjoy.
> >> --lhf
> >>
> >
> >
> > So should it be named RC2 to avoid confusions ?
> >
> > /Erik
>
> I second that. Please don't modify your released tarballs-- work,
> beta,
> release candidate, or otherwise. Any might get packaged downstream.
> Consider that package development involves taking a known upstream
> source, possibly applying patches, and building. Really this should be
> reproducible all the way from the download URL.
>
> --John
>