Subject: pkg/23507: wm/wmthemes has no distinfo data
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/20/2003 18:10:10
>Number:         23507
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       wm/wmthemes has no distinfo data
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 20 11:14:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6X   (pkgsrc -current as of time of this message)
>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/wmthemes

	I believe this was a deliberate choice (perhaps inherited
	from ethemes) made because the theme files changed frequently
	without updating the file names.

	Whether true for ethemes or not, this doesn't appear to ever
	have really been the case for wmthemes.   The distfiles on the
	master site were last updated (well one, the other two are
	even older) more than two and a half years ago.   What's more
	they all contain version numbers in their names, so one might
	at least hope that if one does get updated after all this time,
	it would be considered to be a new version.

	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 to pkgsrc/wm/wmthemes
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: