[invalid] r4400: Techtree vallidator duplicates false positives?

[tomreyn]

The techtree validator currently outputs the following for Megapack:

Duplicates 28.59 MB (373) in files

However, it is my understanding that Titi thinks these files are actually needed. As such (and if this is so), these seem to be false reports and the deduplication mechanism of the techtree validator needs to be adjusted.

[filux]

I my opinion definitely false positives.
For example, there are plenty of identical (duplicate) models, but graphics (. tda) for these models are different, and it makes the same model looks different.

[softcoder]

Duplicate are duplicates. You only need 1 version of the model. If the model CRC is the same then its a duplicate. IF the folder have different images thats ok. In the end the duplicate cleanup currently only works on sounds because titi did not want to weed out duplicates more than that. The Debian games team actually DOES remove duplicates (which is passed onto the Ubuntu distro) and they create links to the single files for ALL data and MG works fine. That proves that we can also do it but Titi prefers not to do this.

This is not a bug, the report is accurate, if you feel it is not then please provide specific details.

Thanks

[tomreyn]

Thanks for the explanation.

So Megapack (the way we distribute it) contains duplicates, which is intentional and thus not a bug, I just wasn't aware of this.