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I sort of have vague recollections and feverish nightmares of what sort of crap avifile was from a packaging perspective.

Today I wanted to try out a new version of vcr that has come out and works with avifile 0.7.37 and tried updating my spec for avifile again.

Here's a snippet of the list of tarballs they currently have up for download:

• avifile-0.7-0.7.38.tar.gz
• avifile-0.7.37-20030522.tgz
• avifile-0.7.34-20030319.tgz
• avifile-0.6.0-20011220admin.tgz
• avifile-0.53.5.tar.gz

Apparently, they're STILL doing the same sort of silly things from back then.

People, if you want your project taken seriously, then:

• settle on one or two formats for your source distribution. Have them have sane suffixes. I suggest .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 If you settled on tar.gz, then choose either .tgz or tar.gz, but don't use both
• settle on one version naming scheme. I count four among the five tarballs I just listed. I see no good reason for changing to have an extra 0.7 at all in the last release.

It's no wonder just about any packager for Red Hat I know has decided not ever to package avifile again.

Crap I sort of have vague recollections and feverish nightmares of what sort of crap avifile was from a packaging perspective. Today I wanted to try out a new version...