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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:13:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161012141303.GB18017@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8e9dbkn.fsf@dustycloud.org>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:57:28AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I'd be for using actual upstream, or at least supplying both, so that
> they're mirrors.  One concern is, what about the tooling for telling us
> when updates to packages are available?

I've noticed that the PyPi tarballs and the "upstream site" tarballs are
usually not the same thing. So, you could ask upstream what the prefer
packagers use and pick that one.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-12  6:16 Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites Arun Isaac
2016-10-12  7:49 ` Alex Kost
2016-10-12 11:57 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-10-12 12:44   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-12 14:52     ` Arun Isaac
2016-10-12 20:15       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-12 14:13   ` Leo Famulari [this message]

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