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RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] XaraLX-0.5r1292.tar.bz2 rerolled




> Am Mittwoch, den 14.06.2006, 18:10 +0100 schrieb Neil Howe:
> > Well it's only really worth doing if the point raised by Vasil is
> > important enough now that it's understood why the archive changes.
> 
> While Debian does distribute the upstream source package as it was
used
> for building the binaries, it is nice to be able to verify that is
> actually the original, unmodified tarball. For that, the md5sum of the
> original tarball must not change, as it is recorded in the debian
source
> description file.
> 
> It's not a major issue, but nice to have. At least for the "official"
> releases, the released tarball should be save somewhere without
> modification.

This only affects the 'latest' binary tar archive and 'latest'
autopackage builds. The source packages, and all recommended releases of
the binary, shouldn't change.

Neil