ISC BIND 9.8.2 followup announcement

[Lars-Johan Liman]

You did it again. :-(

I remember having a long animated discussion with Michael Graff about
this, and I thought the message had gone through.

_NEVER_EVER_ release two tar balls with identical names and different
content. It will bite you in your behinds for ever more. And ours.

In three months' time, I will have no idea that this happened (because I
forget things), and I will find two tar balls with different checksums,
and it will take me 30 minutes to figure out which is what and why. And
then it will happen again three months later. Multiply me with 100s of
users, and it's a serious waste of our time. You may argue "but it
doesn't matter, because there is no change to the code!". That is of
course true, but 3 months from now I will not know that until I have
verified. Which takes the mentioned 30 minutes. So this complaint is not
about you issuing bad code, it's about the confusion that you create by
putting different things in boxes with the same "bar code" on them.

Please don't put this burden from your mistake (however small) onto our
shoulders.

Version numbers are cheap. Just up one (or call it 9.8.2a or something)
and bake a new tar ball, but NOT the identical name. It's much better
that you do the work _once_, instead of us repeating it multiple times
across the 'net.

And _do_ make sure the version number _inside_ is the same as the name
of the tar ball.

Think of tar balls as of RFCs. If we change the contents after they've
issued, we're heading down a very bad path ...

So, get 9.8.2a out there ASAP, so that everybody moves forward - away
from the confusion.

(Still, I consider myself a lucky guy, because I'm on this list, so I
actually get to know about it. I weep for those who aren't.)

				Respectfully yours,
				  /Liman
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each at isc.org:
> A cosmetic flaw was found in BIND 9.8.2 after publication:  the
> release notes for BIND 9.8.1 were inadvertedly left in the tarball.
> As this caused confusion among some users, ISC is re-publishing
> BIND 9.8.2 with the spurious files removed.  Absolutely no other
> changes have been made to the release.

> As a result of this change, maintainers of distibutions which pull
> directly from ISC may need to update checksums for the BIND 9.8.2
> tarball.  No other users are likely to be affected.

> New tarball:

>     SHA256 (bind-9.8.2.tar.gz) =
>         7f30faf98c59353d26eef40ce9049de91aa5bb003321edbba14eeed974beda71
>     SHA1 (bind-9.8.2.tar.gz) =
>         e2c1230e65cb609624c21260e5508f6ec1bf0a8e
>     MD5 (bind-9.8.2.tar.gz) =
>         4c47675e093f33b1fa70536afaf0cce6

> Old tarball:

>     SHA256 (bind-9.8.2.tar.gz) =
>         2ce26bf9fa36540920f9d1a526c48ce50474a3f3a0ac27c1138152869e1d2c7e
>     SHA1 (bind-9.8.2.tar.gz) =
>         09f0b18bde0438186d6639f08c17db3b98e81c17
>     MD5 (bind-9.8.2.tar.gz) =
>         9d92bed18795a35ebe629f715cf41353


> -- 
> Evan Hunt -- each at isc.org
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.