Hi, On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 12:58, Philip Hazel <philip.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > FWIW I've seen all sorts of files attached as "assets" for a release; if > there's an allowlist of formats, it must be quite permissive. We do release > appimages, yaml, and many other formats. About signatures, I've seen .asc > files used around (probably generated via gpg --armor --detach-sign > file.tar.gz). > > Thanks for that information. I created new signatures for the .gz and .zip > tarballs using --armor (which I had not done before), and then I gzipped > the .asc files. GitHub was happy to load those, so they are now listed with > the 10.37 release. I did the upload from the web interface - when selecting > the files it gave a list of supported file types, and .asc is not among > them. It would be nice to keep the .bz2 tarballs as well, but I don't > really mind abandoning that offering. > That's weird: we are releasing .asc files, without the need of compressing them. See for instance the assets here https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/releases/tag/v2.11.2 Thanks, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
