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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/jbig2dec: new package.
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:12:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgp0s8dj.fsf@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190913140448.2a651ba3@thl530.multi.box>

Hi Thomas,

On Fri, Sep 13 2019, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> +JBIG2DEC_VERSION = 0.16
>> +JBIG2DEC_SITE =
>> https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs927
>
> For packages located on github, you better use the github helper
> function, see:
>
>  https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#github-download-url

This is true only when upstream does not provide an official
tarball. See the first sentence in the paragraph that this URL refers
to:

  Packages on GitHub often don?t have a download area with release tarballs.

Tarballs are preferred when available.

baruch

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-13 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-13 11:24 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/jbig2dec: new package raphael.melotte at essensium.com
2019-09-13 12:04 ` Thomas Huth
2019-09-13 12:12   ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2019-11-06 21:09 ` Bernd Kuhls
2020-03-29 20:54 ` Thomas Petazzoni

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