[horde] Horde 3.3.7, 3.3.8 patch releases differ from tar.gz releases

[Thomas Jacob]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:28 -0400, Michael Rubinsky wrote:

> There is no "fix" to include. to simplify - the issue is that for a  
> brief period of time, which unfortunately included some releases, a  
> server upgrade resulted in broken date handling on our CVS server. The  
> files produced by CVS commits contained an incorrect date format in  
> the tags that CVS places in the file header. This resulted in the  
> mismatched dates when the diffs were generated. Now that the server is  
> fixed, commits and the diffs now result in the correct date format,  
> but there are still files that contain the wrong date format in the  
> $Horde:$ tags.

Well, this is the original problem, understood, but that doesn't
really explain the following:

$ date

Tue May  4 20:31:05 CEST 2010


wget ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-3.3.6.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-3.3.7.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-3.3.8.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/patch-horde-3.3.6-3.3.7.gz
wget ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/patch-horde-3.3.7-3.3.8.gz
tar -zxf horde-3.3.6.tar.gz
tar -zxf horde-3.3.7.tar.gz
tar -zxf horde-3.3.8.tar.gz


$ diff -ruN horde-3.3.7 horde-3.3.8 | wc -l
70
$ zcat patch-horde-3.3.7-3.3.8.gz  | wc -l
58


$ diff -ruN horde-3.3.6 horde-3.3.7 | wc -l
30907
$ zcat patch-horde-3.3.6-3.3.7.gz  | wc -l
22004


Clearly the patch files represent different change sets
from the manually generated diffs.

So which one is the "official" release? 

    Thomas