2016-08-26 21:18 GMT+02:00 IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) <umlae...@debian.org>: > On 08/26/2016 09:24 AM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> 2016-08-15 22:13 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mi...@gmail.com>:
>>> ardour 5.0 has been released. I tried download source for updating, >>> but getting only empty tarball. >>> Anybody knows whats can be wrong? >>> >>> https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/tags >>> >>> Last working tag seems to be 5.0-pre0 :( >> >> ardour 5.1 is out ... I still don't have a idea how get a tarball :( > > indeed the github download seems to be very broken. > it seems that this is intentional (at least that is how i interpret the > line `/* export-ignore` in .gitattributes¹). > i guess this is to force people to download via the ardour website². > ... ok .. > actually i just checked the commit message on .gitattributes, and it > seems that the reason is technical by nature: the build-system in git > Depends on `git desscribe` working (something which we would patch away > in Debian but which of course is inconvenient for "ordinary" users of > the source exports) ok .. > anyhow, i just fetched the upstream tarball and ran gbp-import-orig on it. > it should be possible (and possibly simple) to hack the d/watch to run > the actual download from the official download site, and use github only > as an announcement channel to check for new releases. > since robin is a both a major contributor to ardour these days and a DM > in our team, he might be able to shed some light (and code)... I am copying Robin to help us make decision. best regards mira _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers