Re: ANN: getmail v. 5.9

RW <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 13:27:17 -0600
Charles Cazabon wrote:

> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > hm, ok, well the previous tarball was already uploaded to debian,
> > and now won't match the distributed version.  oh well.  
> 
> I take it you can't upload a new package with the same version
> number.  I could bump the version number and re-release if it's a big
> deal.

I don't know about Debian, but on FreeBSD it's to do with the checksum
failing on the source tarball, which means that that the port is
broken until it's noticed, updated and committed. Even after that's done
people can still run into problems with locally cached copies or old
copies in proxies. 

If you can install from ports, or build your own packages, and know what
you are doing it's easy  to work around. Otherwise it can delay package
building and it's a source of annoyance and confusion.
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