Re: GNU libtool-2.4.6 released [stable]

[Nick Bowler]

[Adding Automake]

On 2015-03-23 16:00 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Christian Rössel wrote:
[...]
> > > I discovered some files in
> > > http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.4.6.tar.gz that IMO
> > > don't belong there. The filenames start with "._" (just do a 'find
> > > . -name "._*"') and seem to contain dropbox meta data.
[...]
> > The 'file' command describes these as "AppleDouble encoded Macintosh file".
> > 
> > It does not seem possible that these files were listed for inclusion
> > in the release so they must be an artifact of the 'tar' program
> > used.
[...]
> Most likely, Apple's tar is passing along file system metadata for the
> destination machine :-(
> 
> While I won't be rolling any future releases, it definitely seems
> worth noting in the README-release notes that before uploading, to a)
> use GNU tar b) check that there are no weird hidden files in the
> tarball!

Is this a bug in Automake then?  Presumably it should either be
generating good tarballs or failing hard.  Maybe we could at
least augment distcheck to test for these artifacts and reject
the package in that case.

Cheers,
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)