[Debian-med-packaging] Please tag the releases of spread-phy on Github

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Filip,

thanks for the release tag.  That's very helpful.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:33:50PM +0100, filip wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I was certain github
> dropped their support for the Downloads from the repositories, but
> apparently they decided to keep the existing ones. In any case I have
> deleted this now, I also created a release tag for version 1.0.7.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Best,
> filip
> 
> > Hi Filip,
> > 
> > as you know we are packaging spread for the Debian distribution.
> > Debian has some means to watch the download locations for new
> > releases.  In case of Github the most easy way is to rely on release
> > tags which enables the download of a source tarball very easily.
> > 
> > I noticed that at the SPREAD Github page[1] the last commit says
> > 
> >    new release 1.0.7
> > 
> > but there are "0 release" tags.  Even worse the download page[2] has
> > an old version (1.0.5) which is confusing for any potential spread
> > user.
> > 
> > It would be great if you could start using release tags.  Feel free to
> > ask for more details how to do this.
> > 
> > Kind regards and thanks for providing spread as Free Software
> > 
> >        Andreas.
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/phylogeography/SPREAD
> > [2] https://github.com/phylogeography/SPREAD/downloads
> > 
> 
> 
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