Hamish: > (a public script creates that tarball (and the md5sum) the way, > I think it's on the alioth site, somewhere. I'm all about the > automation..) here'tis, pretty simple: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-grass/packages/opencpn/tarballs/get_latest_from_git.sh?view=markup regards, Hamish