On 06/26/10 19:51, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> 
>> Take a look at this page:
>> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/wiki/How_to_be_a_good_upstream - it is Java
>> specific mostly, but some general points can be reused :)
> 
> Hmm, this document suggests something, I just forgot to prohibit:
> 
> "Release the source archives along with whatever binary archives you may have."
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You intend to "prohibit" releasing binary packages for upstream? Thats...
something you don't see everyday. Why would you do that?

It's quite common for Java projects to release pre-built JAR files or for C/C++
(or other) based projects to release debs or rpms - it's standard practice.

What's important in quoted sentence is: "Release the source archives along with
binary archives" - the "with" is very important - in short: don't release only
binary versions and force us to grab them from VCS.

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