tar names vs. repo names

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Mon Aug 26 10:30:58 BST 2019


For Plasma all the tars have the same names as the git repos.

Jonathan


On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 15:13, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
> HS
>
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