Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:

> If you're saying you want to publish another tarball with version
> 1.0.1 that has different contents of the current one, than with my
> distro package maintainer and programmer hats on I say "you should
> not". If you have published (and not advertised, ok) something, you
> cannot re-publish the same version but with something "different" in
> it. Just go with 1.0.2, distros have (usually) the latest version and
> you are free to release patches in the HEAD of your development tree:
> it's a distro package maintainer evaluate if this patches are to be
> backported to the distro version, if the version cannot be bring
> up-to-date with the latest release.

Exactly, once we upload a version with a number, it is fixed.  It
becomes really difficult to debug when two people think they are using
the same code and looking at different bases.