Re: New mtd-utils release?

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:37 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Artem" == Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>  >> Could you upload a tarball into ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/?
>  >> It would make the life of the distribution people easier.
> 
>  Artem> No sorry, I do not have access there, and I also think distributions can
>  Artem> easily fetch from git trees, which is not a problem at all.
> 
> Who does, David?

Dunno.

> I DO think normal tarballs is a lot nicer than a tag somewhere in
> $VCS. For meta distributions like ptxdist, OE or buildroot tarballs are
> easier to use and mirror, and if nothing else it stops people from
> missing the new release when they browse
> ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/.

May be.

However, I do not want to be impolite, but I just do not want to do
that. I someone else wants - no problem. I just do not volunteer to
maintain the FTP directory with the tarballs, I only volunteer to
provide the tags. Apologies.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)