Marek Kasik <[email protected]> writes: > OK, I just thought that you don't want git specific files there since > you've removed git specific directories. > I'll workaround it in freetype's spec file.
Obviously they are specialized files, and won't be useful to many people downloading the tarball. However, they are source files, in the sense that they add useful, and unique information that cannot be recreated automatically. It would be perfectly reasonable, for instance, for somebody to commit the contents of a release tarball to a local git archive (maybe as part of a larger project); for such people, it would be helpful to have these files which somebody already went to the trouble of writing. [Sure, for those that use a non-git source-control system, they can't be used directly -- but in many cases, the information is still valuable, and can be simply copied/tweaked for the source-control system used.] Of course this isn't particularly _crucial_ information, and whether they're included or considered "noise to be removed in the tarball" is mostly a matter of maintainer taste -- but for the same reason, a build system probably shouldn't be warning about their presence... -Miles -- Ocean, n. A body of water covering seven-tenths of a world designed for Man - who has no gills. _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
