Subject: pkg/23520: wm/ethemes has no distinfo data
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/21/2003 15:56:03
>Number: 23520
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: wm/ethemes has no distinfo data
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 21 08:58:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Robert Elz
>Release: NetBSD 1.6X (pkgsrc -current as of time of mail)
>Organization:
Prince of Songkla University
>Environment:
System: NetBSD jade.coe.psu.ac.th 1.6X NetBSD 1.6X (JADE) #17: Wed Sep 24 20:25:35 ICT 2003 kre@jade.coe.psu.ac.th:/usr/src/real-sys/arch/i386/compile/JADE i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
There is no distinfo file for wm/ethemes
I believe this was a deliberate choice (perhaps inherited
from wmthemes or some other themes) made because the theme
files changed frequently without updating the file names.
The distfiles on the master site were last updated more than
3 years ago, what's more, their file names all contain their
last modification data, to minute accuracy - so the chances
of a file's content being changed now without a name change
seems vanishingly small.
Not having a distinfo file means that corrupted downloads can't
easily be detected - there really needs to be a very strong reason
to ignore this, and here, that reason doesn't seem to exist.
>How-To-Repeat:
By inspection
>Fix:
Add a distinfo file
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: