[MPlayer-dev-eng] Man page update regarding additional xvid profiles and levels

Giorgio mywing81 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 20:05:55 CET 2010


2010/10/23 Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>:
> Giorgio <mywing81 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > I changed both the french and english versions of the man pages.
>
> Please consider installing svn.
>
>> And here's the italian version :)
>
> Please consider not deleting the last line-break from your patches.

Sorry for the long delay Carl, but I realized only now what you meant.
This is strange. My original patch (which I made with "svn diff")
_contains_ the last line break and had the following md5sum:

holden at holden-desktop:~/Scaricati$ ls -l man_page_it.diff
-rw-r--r-- 1 holden holden 479 2010-11-17 19:37 man_page_it.diff
holden at holden-desktop:~/Scaricati$ md5sum man_page_it.diff
c6e99c81cd0ad371263ca09782b1136a  man_page_it.diff

When this is sent with the email, it is encoded in base64 format, and
if you look into my email (here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/57982/raw )
you'll find the following data:

holden at holden-desktop:~/Scaricati$ cat b64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so now, if you try to decode it and compute the md5sum, you'll get:

holden at holden-desktop:~/Scaricati$ cat b64 | base64 -d | md5sum
c6e99c81cd0ad371263ca09782b1136a  -

and as you can see the patch was sent _unchanged_. But, if you go to
the mailing list archives here:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2010-October/066647.html

and download the attachment (
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/attachments/20101023/f4dfd286/attachment.diff
) you'll see that the size is one byte shorter and of course it has a
different md5sum:

holden at holden-desktop:~/Scaricati$ ls -l attachment.diff
-rw-r--r-- 1 holden holden 478 2010-11-17 19:37 attachment.diff
holden at holden-desktop:~/Scaricati$ md5sum attachment.diff
53bdad67bfb37879928a5ef37ab351cd  attachment.diff

and what is missing is exactly the last line-break!
Does anyone know why the mailing list system is eating my last line-break? :(

Giorgio Vazzana


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