On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:06:04PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: > For all my qmake and cmake based projects, neither that has a make dist, > I've asked my VCS for a tarball of the tag and blessed that one as 'the > release'. +1 Anecdotally, one of my upstreams has a broken tarball which is a git export on a windows machine, with +x everywhere and CRLF line-endings, which isn't an issue if you're treating the VCS as your "orig".