[Pkg-electronics-devel] Upstream tarball tar.gz vs tar.xz

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 03:04:00PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am one of the upstream maintainer of gnusim8085. We have recently
> switched to meson build system and meson creates tar.xz by default.
> 
> Is there any policy on if the upstream tarballs need to be in tar.gz
> or tar.xz? If they must be in tar.gz then I will have to figure out a
> way to create dist in tar.gz using meson.

Debian can cope with upstream tar.gz, tar.bz2 or tar.xz just fine -
there are examples of all of them in the archive currently.

J.

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