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Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:54:41PM -0400, David Golden wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: >> > Andreas's firm view is that in the PAUSE index package and version should >> > represent a unique file. Not just unique code. Hence we shouldn't be >> > shipping non-identical versions of a file which report the same version, >> > even if the changes are only documentation. >> >> That's his view, but I don't believe it's enforced by PAUSE. > > Yes, it's his view and his code enforces it for everyone else except the perl > core. (Unless I'm misunderstanding something) for any regular distribution, > you can't upload the same file twice and have the index accept the new > one. Enforced on the tarball level. The reason for the enforcement is integrity of the archive as a whole. Not enforced on the individual-file-within-tarball level. Personally I consider it good practice when version numbers are bumped when files change between releases, but we never considered to make it mandatory, as far as I remember. -- andreasThread Previous | Thread Next