W dniu pią, 16.03.2018 o godzinie 12∶00 +0100, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller napisał: > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Martin Vaeth wrote: > > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > I think the conclusion is that github generates tarballs on the > > > fly, and therefore we cannot rely on them being invariant over a > > > long time. > > So I would not worry too much about it: It is not worth the cost of > > hosting a huge number of tarballs permanently > > I agree, because hosting tarballs of upstream packages is not a task > for us as a distro. > > > (or to convince upstream to let them be hosted by github for every > > single version, only because one cannot theoretically exclude that a > > similar thing won't ever happen again). [...] > > In the first place, upstream should make proper releases, which > includes creating a pristine tarball and permanently hosting it. > So, yell at them if they don't. And no, a git tag is not a release. >
Feel free to convince Python upstreams to include tests in their releases. Last I tried, I heard that tests are not useful for people who install packages, and that they would make tarballs bigger. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
