ports/97120: GPSMan 6.2.1 -> 6.3

[David Wolfskill]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:31:10AM +0000, Volker Stolz wrote:
> Synopsis: GPSMan 6.2.1 -> 6.3
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: vs
> State-Changed-When: Thu May 11 10:30:53 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> => Attempting to fetch from http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/gpsmanhtml/.
> fetch: http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/gpsmanhtml/gpsman-6.3.tgz: size mismatch: expected 1151425, actual 1152069

Nice catch.  :-(

I've had discussions about this sort of thing with the author of the
code previously, but the last time was quite a while back, so he
apparently forgot that even changing date-stamps in HTML comments is
enough of a change so that our tools notice that something's different,
and stop the process.  (I fetched a new tarball, saw the difference
mentioned, unpacked each, & did a recursive diff.  Such date-stamps were
the only changes; there were about a dozen of them.)

I've sent the author a reminder of how this stuff works, a request to be
notified if he changes the tarball for any reason at all, and a request
to let me know when the tarball for GPSMan 6.3 is stable.

I also stated that I wouldn't be sending in the updated information (to
allow the port to build ) until I got the above information from him.

I'll submit another follow-up with the revised patch once that happens
-- unless there really are substantiative changes between then & now, in
which case I'll request that this PR be closed & I'll file a new one.  I
don't expect the latter to happen, but stranger things have.  :-}

(I also suggested to the author that there might be some value if he
were to publish such validity-checking information as the tarball's size
and MD5 checksum on the Web page for fetching it.  We'll see what
happens.)

Thanks again; sorry for the hassle.

Peace,
david   (current hat: astro/gpsman maintainer)
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