/hg/icedtea: 3 new changesets

Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Tue Nov 17 13:58:28 PST 2009


2009/11/17 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:
> On 17.11.2009 13:44, andrew at icedtea.classpath.org wrote:
>>
>> changeset 9c090fa1a619 in /hg/icedtea
>> details:
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea?cmd=changeset;node=9c090fa1a619
>> author: Andrew John Hughes<ahughes at redhat.com>
>> date: Tue Nov 17 19:31:54 2009 +0000
>>
>>        Always checksum zips, even if specified with --with-alt-x.
>
> if I understand the patch correctly, then this is the wrong thing to do.
> distributions need to ship modified tarballs with binary files and files
> with questionalble licenses removed.
>
>  Matthias
>

Do we still have any?  If so, we should be getting them removed upstream.

I don't think that's a justifiable reason to allow through potential
bogus zips; this patch avoids issues where the build then fails
because someone used an old zip.
Worst case, you can change the checksum to match your modified tarball.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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