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| author | Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> | 2017-06-17 17:57:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> | 2017-06-17 17:57:37 -0400 |
| commit | acedb46a3e41f97fc9fedb731d7a286be7104dde (patch) | |
| tree | eca680b94ccfcd9992754ec6afb49e1c70cc2c19 /debian/README.Debian | |
| parent | c8c7c2b1d777126fcb36929463d66a8f0a381975 (diff) | |
Clarify how the upstream tarball is produced
The "upstream" tarball is produced using git-archive from the upstream
git branch at github:
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/README.Debian')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/README.Debian | 16 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index 269c598f..749da0cb 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -109,17 +109,9 @@ http://www.boxbackup.org "Upstream" tarball ------------------ -Althogh upstream indeed publishes tarballs, the debian package is no -longer based on these tarballs. The reason for this is that the -procedure for creating these tarballs makes package maintenance and -interaction with upstream unnecessary hard. +The "upstream" tarball is produced using git-archive from the upstream +git branch at github: -Moreover, there seem to be different types of tarballs. Official ones -used for a release and "unofficial" ones that are created for snapshot -releases, causing further confusion. +https://github.com/boxbackup/boxbackup -Since upstream releases rather seldomly, but we want to distribute -pre-releases and integrate patches from the upstream svn, the package -ships a script in the source that is used to create the orig.tar.gz. - - -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>, Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:02:45 -0400 + -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>, Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:57:00 -0400 |