[Pdns-users] [Pdns-dev] Auth 3.3.1 release candidate

Marc Haber mh+pdns-users at zugschlus.de
Fri Dec 6 13:01:13 UTC 2013


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:41:37PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2013, at 13:36 , Marc Haber wrote:
> > From a packaging point of view, it would be nice to still have actual
> > tarballs for any version upstream would like to see packaged so that
> > distributions don't build from identical tarballs with different
> > checksum which makes auditing so much harder.
> 
> We would never intentionally release identically named tar balls with different contents or checksums.

but if you just release by publishing a git tag, distributors will go
ahead and make their own tarballs because the workflows and tools need
them. Even if their contents is identical, those tarballs are bound to
have different checksums.

Greetings
Marc

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