[Dune-devel] Dune 2.11: Release tags created

Markus Blatt markus at dr-blatt.de
Tue Jan 27 14:19:19 CET 2026


Hi,

Am Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 01:16:04PM +0100 schrieb Markus Blatt:
>Am Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 08:13:46PM +0100 schrieb Oliver Sander:
>>Hi Christoph,
>>
>>>The tar balls are the default way to create packages for Linux 
>>>distributions and similar systems like brew. Without official 
>>>tarballs,
>>
>>is this so?  My understanding is that at least Debian is moving more 
>>and more towards using git tags directly.
>>
>>@markus, is that correct?
>>
>
>even on Debian we still use tarballs (at least internally).
>Hence these will be created even if the project does not have those.
>In this case we create them from tags.
>

Seems like there is no need for tarballs. Should have known thath.
So if we just have git tags that is fine.

I'll play around a bit with this and will convert the repos to git-buildpackage.
Might take a day or two.

Best,

Markus



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