On Sat, May 25 2019, Thomas Frohwein <tfrohw...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > When trying to download and extract Ultimate Doom to test the gzdoom > update, I couldn't extract the GOG.com file with our innoextract. Turns > out that GOG.com has moved forward to creating those with a snapshot > version of Inno Setup that is not supported by the last release of > innoextract. > > This diff updates the port to the latest snapshot of innoextract that > specifically addresses the issues with GOG. Of note, this proposed > update switches from the distfiles of the Homepage to the GitHub > commit. I am usually against this where possible because of GH's track > record of changing their on-the-fly tarball creation without notice. I > looked at the relevant patch history since release to see if we could > stay with 1.7 and add a patch, but the changes are too complex and > would make next updates potentially confusing. Therefore, I propose to > temporarily switch to GH_COMMIT. I placed a comment to switch back when > possible. > > I think this is justified by GOG.com downloads being the main use case > which is broken in the current state. This update fixes the extraction > of the Ultimate Doom file. > > Is 1.7.20190228 acceptable as the update version number? Feb 28, 2019 > is the date of the GH commit, and the next release will likely be 1.8. > > I would like to take MAINTAINER of innoextract while here. > > ok?
yep, ok jca@ -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
