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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:12:08 +0300
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/jbig2dec: new package.
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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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