[Privoxy-devel] How to identify when new files are added to the release?

[Fabian Keil]

Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Is there a standard way in which one can identify whether new files have
> been added to the Privoxy release? The OS X packaging tools all require
> each payload item to be uniquely referenced, and consequently the client-
> tags file has been missing from my releases since it was added to the
> project. I am consequently concerned that there are other files still
> missing and that current OS X releases might still have missing
> functionality as a result.

I assume most packagers use the install target with an empty
DESTDIR and check what's installed.

In theory missing template files are also detected by
privoxy-regression-test but in case of the client-tags
template I forgot to add the test in time for the release.

Finally, you could look at the packaging lists used on other platforms,
the one used for FreeBSD-based systems is available at:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/privoxy/pkg-plist?view=markup

Note that it does not include the FAQ and the developer manual
and packages for other platforms may not contain other files that
aren't essential for Privoxy to work.
 
> Separately, Fabian does http://www.privoxy.org/sf-download-mirror/ get
> updated automatically as the Sourceforge file hierarchy changes? I've of
> course replaced the OS X packages there with corrected versions and want
> to ensure all download locations are updated.

At the moment it's updated manually by me (and I've done that),
but hopefully every packager will be able to upload his own packages
before the next release.

BTW, for future package updates it would be preferable if the
old packages would be kept instead of being overwritten. A revision
number in the file name would make it more obvious for users of the
old package that they should update.

Fabian
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