Re: Aw: iso-codes yet again (was: Re: Aw: [ANNOUNCE] GARNOME 2.15.3)

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 11:35 +1000, Paul Drain wrote:
> > 
> > The iso-codes tarballs vanished from the debian ftp server, which is the
> > master source for iso-codes. And no, we do not have any clue why anyone
> > ever would possibly remove the previous version, when releasing a new
> > tarball...
> 
> Unfortunately, the removal of the 'last-uploaded' version seems common
> practise for the Debian and Ubuntu distributions -- aside from the
> sourceforge non-reliability issues, it was the number one reason I used
> to host certain tarballs myself.
> 
> I'd hazard a guess there'd be plenty of opportunities to rectify this
> annoying practise at GUADEC though :)

I'll make sure this topic comes up while talking to some particular
folks...

Greetings from GUADEC, everybody! :-)

...guenther


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}