Re: gnome-1.4.1 beta1

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On 01 Aug 2001 16:58:32 +0100, Laszlo PETER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not a maintainer, so I'm just guessing. I can think of 3 reasons
> why the tarball contents may differ from the CVS tags:
>   - the maintainer simply forgets to create the tag right after
>     creating the tarball.
>   - the maintainer creates the tarball and the tag, then finds that
>     something's wrong, fixes the tarball but leaves the tag as it is
>   - horribile dictum: the tarball is not created from a clean cvs checkout
>     but a workspace with uncommitted changes.

such as if you are travelling and have time to do the release while you
are on the plane?  :)

jacob
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