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

[Onkar Shinde]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:03 PM Jonathan McDowell <noodles at earth.li> wrote:
>
> 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.

Great. So now I just need to figure out how to package applications
that use meson with minimum changes to the debian/rules. :-)

Regards,
Onkar