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>>>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Martin Vaeth wrote: |
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> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I think the conclusion is that github generates tarballs on the |
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>> fly, and therefore we cannot rely on them being invariant over a |
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>> long time. |
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> So I would not worry too much about it: It is not worth the cost of |
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> hosting a huge number of tarballs permanently |
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I agree, because hosting tarballs of upstream packages is not a task |
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for us as a distro. |
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> (or to convince upstream to let them be hosted by github for every |
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> single version, only because one cannot theoretically exclude that a |
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> similar thing won't ever happen again). [...] |
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In the first place, upstream should make proper releases, which |
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includes creating a pristine tarball and permanently hosting it. |
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So, yell at them if they don't. And no, a git tag is not a release. |
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Ulrich |
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