GitHub is a terrible upstream

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/23/2012 11:37 AM, Andy Grover wrote:
> "wget --content-disposition https://github.com/$user/$project/tarball/$tag"
>
> lets you download a tarball named $user-$project-$tag-0-$gitsha1.tar.gz.
> That saves the maintainer from having to document how to generate the
> tarball, in exchange for dealing with a tarball name that contains
> random content (the sha1). The path of files in the tarball also
> contains the sha1.
>
> Even so, this still seems preferable to me than making packagers
> generate the tarball each time and document the process, which seems
> very prone to error.
>
> Regards -- Andy
>
> ps btw that wget w/o --content-disposition gets you a tarball named $tag.
> pps I both package and maintain upstream code in github, guidelines on
> the wiki would be great.

My problem is I'm wedded to spectool -g and it doesn't use 
--content-disposition.  Would it be safe to have spectool always use that option?

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