[Mesa-dev] Finishing make distcheck

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 02:46:25 PST 2014


On 12/12/14 22:41, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 09:02:11 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> 
>>  * Don't ship anything but a tar.xz tarball.
>> Linux, *BSD and WindowsXP+ have/ship programs that support the format
>> for more than 5 years.
>>
> FWIW I'd appreciate if you kept the tar.gz.
> 
Can you please share what's the reason behind your request ?

Planning to send out "let's vote", and Cc a maintainer or two from the
major 4-5 distros. Having some ideas why X or Y is desired/needed is
always a plus.


-Emil


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