tar names vs. repo names

[Albert Astals Cid]

El divendres, 23 d’agost de 2019, a les 16:12:43 CEST, Harald Sitter va escriure:
> Yo!
> 
> What's our stance on tar names different from the repo names?
> 
> For simplicity's sake I would argue it should not ever happen, but are
> there practical reasons where we simply have to have it (other than
> for legacy naming reasons)?
> 
> And if we do have a need for this, should we maybe encode the tarname
> in our repo-metadata json if it is different from the repo basename?
> 
> Currently we don't really have the name map codified anywhere, which
> is a bit annoying to me because for legacy reasons phonon-vlc.git is
> actually released as phonon-backend-vlc but since that isn't codified
> in our metadata releaseme doesn't know that, and neither does neon's
> tooling (to map stuff the other way for git-master builds).
> 
> Thoughts?

I don't think it really makes sense to make our lifes harder for no reason, I'd go for either rename the tar or the git repo.

Cheers,
  Albert

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> HS
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