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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 04:37:43PM -0700, Ross Burton wrote:
> The SRC_URI almost definitely shouldn't be using ${PN}, and GitHub */archive/*
> tarballs are dynamically generated so the checksums will change over time.
>...

It might be worth mentioning that this is for archive, not releases.

GitHub release tarballs are stable, and they are preferable to commit ids.

cu
Adrian

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