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Could you provide tarballs with a standard naming?

Asked by Sebastián Magrí

The current way of naming the tarballs distributed in http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/releases/tars/ is kind of weird, and makes difficult to properly identify a tarball with a specific release. It makes things difficult for packagers and maintainers on other distributions or in source based package managers like portage.

Providing a tarball named properly per version would make packagers life easier and the package would be supported by more distributions.

An example, for version 0.70.1, the fetch URL should be:

http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/releases/tars/shutter-0.70.1.tar.gz

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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : 		#1

yeah sorry I didn't reply, this is fine to strip off the ~ppa thing.
Sometimes people make automated scripts to download the sources and those
would have trouble guessing which ppa version it is.

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Sebastián Magrí (sebasmagri) said : 		#2

Could the *.orig.* stuff be stripped too?

In our case in Gentoo, every package is installed through automated scripts which downloads the sources and build them locally. I think in other distros maintainers have also automated scripts which does a similar work.

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Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper) said : 		#3

I've changed the tar files. Could you please check if they fit your needs?

http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/releases/tars

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Sebastián Magrí (sebasmagri) said : 		#4

It does, and hopefully will fit the needs of other maintainers!

Thanks for your attention...

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Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper) said : 		#5

Fine.
Please let us know when there is a Gentoo package available so we can put a link to it on the project homepage.

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Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper) said : 		#6

@Vadim: I've already informed the arch maintainer.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24443