Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Sunday 18 May 2008, Bastian Blank wrote:
--cut--
> | $ md5sum dist*
> | 7417436d2d0cbe9322d7503041c2e2df  dist-3.0@70.tar.gz
> | b959d34e40b01303e98a6b85255dd92d  dist_3.70.orig.tar.gz
> | $ mkdir 1 2
> | $ tar -C 1 -xzf dist-3.0@70.tar.gz
> | $ tar -C 2 -xzf dist_3.70.orig.tar.gz
> | $ diff -urN 1/dist-3.0@70 2/dist-3.70.orig | diffstat
> |  0 files changed
>
> Your point being?

Ops, sorry for the false positive -- my memory served me bad, I should have 
checked that first.

Another reason I thought of for seeing such defferences might be a silent 
subsequent change of the tarball at the upstream site (md5,sha1 sums 
including).

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