> Am 08.01.2021 um 15:50 schrieb Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>: > > On Jan 7, 2021, at 16:26, Andrew Udvare wrote: > >> Sometimes the release tarball will come with the submodule source >> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9612#issuecomment-756376258 >> but this probably depends on the project. > > If a release tarball doesn't come with everything needed to build the source > (i.e. with submodules included), then it's of no use to anyone. So that would > be a bug to report to whoever prepared that tarball. >
Unfortunately, for GitHub this bug seems to be the default: https://github.community/t/create-release-that-contains-submodule/1329. And they are apparently not really eager to fix that.
