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[Project management] Versioned tarball releases? #93

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rubyFeedback opened this issue Feb 7, 2021 · 0 comments
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[Project management] Versioned tarball releases? #93

rubyFeedback opened this issue Feb 7, 2021 · 0 comments

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Hey lx-devs,

On sourceforge I noticed a recent upload:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxde/files/LXTerminal%20%28terminal%20emulator%29/LXTerminal%200.4.x/lxterminal-0.4.0.tar.xz

Note how it is versioned.

On github, the URL only offers this:

https://github.com/lxde/lxterminal/archive/0.4.0.tar.gz

Would it be possible for the github releases to also use a versioned
scheme? The tarball at sourceforge already appears to provide that,
and other github-based projects make this possible too, so it is
a bit odd to see that sourceforge contains more info than github
in this regard. :)

When extracting e. g. the 0.4.0.tar.gz from github, it is expanded
into the longer version, thus the tarball does not match the
name of the archive; the sourceforge release does not have
this problem.

It's not a big issue, I can re-package, but I think it would be
simpler if the versioned name remains the same, the extracted
directory is also the same (such as the sourceforge release)
and the github-releases could also offer these tarballs. Perhaps
there is some simple way in github to do this automatically.
Anyway, thanks for reading, please close this at any moment
in time!

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