On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:05:55AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:00:19PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:55:34PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> <snip> 
> > I'd refer you to the following revision of the pkg-vulnerabilities file:
> > 
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.52
> > date: 2001/06/06 23:46:35;  author: wiz;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
> > Add comment line to grow file size to be bigger than v1.49 again.
> > The added line should be deleted during the next update and has been
> > kept short for that reason.
> > ----------------------------
> 
> 
> Does this seem a bit klunky to anybody else? You shouldn't have to insert a
> garbage line just to convince download-vulnerability-list that the new file is
> OK to replace the old one...

If you can think of a better way to determine if the file was damaged in
transit, I'm all ears.

Alistair