Re: using upstream tag instead of tarball

[Emmanuel Promayon <Emmanuel.Promayon@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>]

Dear Andreas,

On 13/07/18 22:00, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Emmanuel,
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 06:33:13PM +0200, Emmanuel Promayon wrote:
> > In upstream we are also using a local gitlab instance to host our project
> > (hosted on gricad-gitlab.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr).
> As far as I know gitlab provides a method to generate a downloadable tarball
> from tags.  You can steal the according watch line from the wiki page
>
>     https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch#Gitlab
>
> and adapt it to your Gitlab instance.
Thank your for this suggestion, this works very well.
I will use this mechanism until I understand a little bit more about how 
to link upstream directly.

Best regards,
Emmanuel