On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 05:43:30PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
(1) The vast majority of upstreams that newcomers are likely to
encounter do not produce tarballs. Instead, they push signed git
tags, and let GitHub/some other forge publish automatically
generated tarballs for those that want them.
Is that so?
Aren't we encouraging our newcomers not to begin with their own packages
but instead look for an existing package they could help maintaining?
Greetings
Marc
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