Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

[Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

>
> Oh. my. god.
>
> Just ask your upstream to do proper releases rather than manually
> *pointing* to git commits? Really, this kind of behaviour is horrible,
> and causing you all kinds of problems. I doubt you'll be the only one
> who's having problems; people who install from source will have issues, too.
>
> Git is a version control system, not a version release system.
>

Some interesting document to point them to, maybe :
http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide

My 2 cents,

Best regards,
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