Extragear tarball 4.0.3

[Tom Albers]

At Tuesday 08 April 2008 07:24, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008 07:05:19 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > > In the future can you please make sure all tarballs that have been
> > > > > modified get a version bump?
> > > >
> > > > I've had a similar request from the kubuntu-team. I don't know what
> > > > to answer though. A couple months back we decided that it's the apps
> > > > responsibility to bump the version numbers, but that is not
> > > > happening though.
> > >
> > > The version number needs to change, that's a basic part of release
> > > management.  If it's not done by the app author it should be done by
> > > the release manager or just not released at all.
> >
> > stating the obvious here: not every app released as part of extragear along
> > with KDE will be a new version of said application.
> 
> So why re-release them at all? 

So you get updated translations.

> Or why modify the tarballs? Some of the 
> packages only differed by a different creation date in the *.mo files in the 
> tarball - I assume this change is caused by the release script? 

There shoul not be any mo files in the tarball. The po files are converted to mo at compile time.

> All we wish 
> to avoid is having several, tarballs with the exact same name but different 
> contents.

Sure, but I don't see a solution.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers