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Hi Paul,

Am Mo den  8. Sep 2014 um 21:28 schrieb Paul Wise:
> > Maybe.. Have to have a look into it.
> 
> It basically allows you to download tarballs of git branches, tags and
> commits so the resulting tarballs won't have autotools stuff in them.

Yes, that is the same that you can archive by "git archive" I think. See
no sense to import them into debian git when you can merge them
directly...

> > Well, I had not the major problem with their proprietary codebase. In
> > the past days the most important problem was the archaic support for
> > modern repositories like git.
> 
> That has been resolved for many years now, they have git and hg.

I know. That was why I said "past days".

> > The most problem I myself have is that they inject proprietary code in
> > free projects for advertisement or force users to use a advertisement
> > downloader to get the files. The time when they start doing that I
> > canceled my account I had with them.
> 
> Yeah that was a pretty big mistake. IIRC they stopped doing that and I
> thought it was just a proposal rather than something in production.

No, they did that and actively do that in current days.

And even if they stop right now I never can trust them anymore.

> > That's true. I would have the resources to provide that on my private
> > server platform but I do not want to make geeqie depending on me
> > personally. It is a free project and it should stay being one.
> 
> Perhaps this WikiPedia page can help make a choice:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_hosting_facilities

Nice reference, thanks. Even there: "Countries blocked" not empty for
sourceforge. That is a nogo.

Regards
   Klaus

Ps. For the debian related stuff I will write outside of the list.
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