[links] Re: please update version number for changed 2.1pre18

> Hello, I retrieved links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 twice.

Hi

links-2.1pre19 was already released. I don't have the old archive and I 
think it's not needed to add bogus file to it now. I will try to make sure 
that this won't happen in the future.

Mikulas

> The files are different sizes:
>
> 3884871 Sep 11 22:36 links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2
>
> and older download:
>
> 5443919 Aug  3 01:26 links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2
>
> The change is in the links-2.1pre18/graphics/font_include.c file.
>
> I am a maintainer for the pkgsrc packages collection. We use filesizes and 
> sha1 and md5 checksums to verify the integrity of the downloads for our build 
> process. (Gentoo's build system does similar and this helped detect a 
> sendmail trojan a couple years ago.)
>
> Also it makes it hard for others to provide mirrors of the downloads now that 
> there are different files with identical filename.
>
> Please consider updating the version number for any officially released 
> downloads.
>
> Can you please release it as 2.1pre19?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>
> 	  	 	 Media Relations and Publishing Services
> 	  	 	 http://www.reedmedia.net/
>
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