Author: Giuseppe D'Angelo Date: To: Philip Hazel CC: Lucas Trzesniewski, Pcre-dev <Pcre-dev@exim.org> Subject: 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.
