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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> FWIW, some of the deployment tool communities (ansible and puppet,
> I think) rely on git repos without external artifacts, and we're
> supporting them in our release tools today. I'm not sure how
> downstream packagers feel about the lack of external artifacts.

I recall zigo working hard for the Debian packaging to come strictly
from Git repo tags but do not recall seeing opinions from other
packagers.

> Were you thinking of files other than the tarball when you say
> "generated files"?

Yes, in particular, files like AUTHORS and sample config files, which
IIRC are generated and included in tarballs.

dt

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