Re: 2.12.3 source tarball changed (back in january)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:

>> > a fellow openbsd developer noticed that the 2.12.3 source tarball
>> > (http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/v2.12/lilypond-2.12.3.tar.gz)
>> > differs from the same version from late december (december, 20th,
>> > I think).
>>
>> We released 2.12.3-1 on 15 Dec 2009 and 2.12.3-2 on 12 Jan 2010, so
>> this would account for the checksum change.
>
> In particular, there was some build-related problem (maybe in the
> autoconf stuff?) that a packager wanted fixed.  I had thought it
> was from one of the BSDs, but maybe the report came from debian.
>
> It seemed silly to make a "2.12.4" release just for a compiling
> issue, so we just did a -2.
>
> We'll certainly consider this in the future, although as long as
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=977
> exists, our only real option is to bump the version number every
> time.

You could skip uploading the source tarball for the -2 releases.

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