GitHub is a terrible upstream

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 10:37 -0700, 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.

Yup, if that's reliable, it's certainly superior. Thanks!
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