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On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:46 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging |
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> scheme, they don't actually have to create release tarballs, |
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> just hack up a little script which creates them on-the-fly |
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> from an canonical URL scheme (eg. oss-qm does exactly that). |
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This breaks badly when the upstream tarball generation is changed. This |
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happened to github a few months ago and broke all our manifests. To |
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their credit they quickly reverted what turned out to be a gratuitous |
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change, but if they ever need to make a real change we get to redigest |
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everything. |
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Kind regards, |
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Hans |