From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T06:19:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.3 and RubyGems

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 06:16 +0900, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> > My apologies to the folks who released the above-listed gems; you may
> > want to rebuild them using Ruby 1.8.2 and re-release them on RubyForge.
> > Doing a "delete" and "add" of the file in the "File Releases" section
> > should do the trick.
> 
> Please please please don't do this.  Release a new version instead (and delete 
> the old one if you so desire).  Changing the md5sum of an already released 
> package makes things very uncomfortable for downstream distribution 
> packagers. :)

Ah, good thought.  Right on.

Yours,

Tom