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gar1t

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Standard for package revs

Recently the erlang package was rev'd with the only change being minor refactoring of PKGBUILD:

http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … fe43fe65cc

This results in a > 30 MB upgrade that provides no runtime value whatsoever.

I'm now wondering how often this occurs across other packages.

Is there a documented standard that package developers are asked to observe when pushing updates?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: Standard for package revs

In this case, it would appear that erlang was rebuilt for the unixodbc bump. Without it, erlang would have been broken.

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Re: Standard for package revs

I don't think there are any devs who rebuild their packages just because the PKGBUILD got revised. That would be foolish. Usually rebuilds are with good reason.

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