Subject: bug#28745: [PATCH] tarballs generated on github are generated on demand (leading to different hash sums)

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:48:04 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Unfortunately, it’s become commonplace to publish nothing else than a
> Git tag.  Now, in those cases, we could also use ‘git-fetch’, which
> wouldn’t be affected by problems with generated tarballs.
>
> Thoughts?

For a couple of packages I’ve already started using git-fetch with the
tag (instead of the commit hash).  I think that’s preferable over using
auto-generated tarballs.

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Ricardo

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