Hi Greg,

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> skribis:

> Back in July Fibers moved to Codeberg (yay!).
>
> I'm looking at updating the pkgsrc package, currently at 1.3.1.
>
> The README on codeberg points to
>
>   https://codeberg.org/guile/fibers/releases
>
> for download, and I don't see links for tarballs.  I see some NEWS type
> content, and a tag with a git hash.
>
> I have no idea if the tarball is just a tarred up repo, or if it's
> automake-style 'make dist'.  I can certainly clone and see the bits, but
> I'm confused by the lack of a wget'able tarball that I could
> configure/make/make-install in a git-clueless sort of way.

We don’t provide ‘make dist’ tarballs for Fibers.  Instead, people are
expected to check out the release Git tag (and to authenticate it) and
build from there.  Perhaps ‘README’ should be clarified.

Is it OK for pkgsrc to do it this way?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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