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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:21:57 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org, security-officer@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/gigabase distinfo
Message-ID:  <20001214122157.G1873@puck.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <200012141225.eBECPn385434@freefall.freebsd.org>; from roam@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:25:49AM -0800
References:  <200012141225.eBECPn385434@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:25:49AM -0800, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>   Log:
>   Forced commit: the previous checksum chase commit was because the source
>   tarball changed.  No functional differences, only some prototyp definitions
>   were changed from C preprocessor macros to real C/C++ keywords.
>   
>   Requested by:	kris (and SOP)
>   Pointy hat:	roam - I *did* remember that ftp.FreeBSD.org still carried
>   		the old distfile to diff against, but I remembered *after*
>   		the commit (and minutes later, was reminded of the same by
>   		several people)

As a general rule, I see little point to noting the differences between
checksums.. most users will never know what your commit message about
this "problem" said, since most users don't read cvs commit messages.
Additionally, if the authors don't bother to document why they changed
the distribution without updating the version, then it's probably not
worth upgrading the port.

-- 
wca


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