Unifying WWW: pkg-descr lines for cpan ports

Bill Fenner fenner at research.att.com
Sat Sep 10 16:46:31 PDT 2005


Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn p??e v so 10. 09. 2005 v 19:32 -0400:
>> At 6:22 PM -0400 9/10/05, Bill Fenner wrote:
>> >The disadvantage of this second phase is that if the port is for
>> >an older version of the module, that the WWW: URL will point to
>> >the most recent version.
>> 
>> I am a little uncomfortable with this.  If I understand this right,
>> this means the "download" step of a port will succeed, only to have
>> the "checksum" step fail.
>
>This is all about changing WWW lines in pkg-descr, right?

Right.

>No one's touching Makefile or distinfo.

Right; no chance of Garance's scenario.

  Bill


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