Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE infrastructure is moving

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Autor: Giuseppe D'Angelo
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A: Philip Hazel
CC: Lucas Trzesniewski, Pcre-dev <Pcre-dev@exim.org>
Assumpte: Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE infrastructure is moving
Hi,

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 12:58, Philip Hazel <philip.hazel@???> wrote:

>
> FWIW I've seen all sorts of files attached as "assets" for a release; if
> there's an allowlist of formats, it must be quite permissive. We do release
> appimages, yaml, and many other formats. About signatures, I've seen .asc
> files used around (probably generated via gpg --armor --detach-sign
> file.tar.gz).
>
> Thanks for that information. I created new signatures for the .gz and .zip
> tarballs using --armor (which I had not done before), and then I gzipped
> the .asc files. GitHub was happy to load those, so they are now listed with
> the 10.37 release. I did the upload from the web interface - when selecting
> the files it gave a list of supported file types, and .asc is not among
> them. It would be nice to keep the .bz2 tarballs as well, but I don't
> really mind abandoning that offering.
>


That's weird: we are releasing .asc files, without the need of compressing
them.

See for instance the assets here
https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/releases/tag/v2.11.2

Thanks,
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Giuseppe D'Angelo