[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 8.4.0

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 7/28/24 11:54 AM, Markus Neteler via grass-dev wrote:
> I just discovered that the tarball no longer contains the version in
> the tarball "grass" subdir (expected "grass-8.4.0"):
> 
> tar tvfz ~/grass-8.4.0.tar.gz  | head
> drwxr-xr-x runner/docker     0 2024-07-27 15:34 grass/
> [...]
> 
> Why is that? Is it a feature?
> It breaks e.g. the (Fedora) RPM packaging procedure...

That tarball used for the Debian package from 
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass84/source/ includes the version in the 
toplevel directory:

  $ tar tavf ../grass-8.4.0.tar.gz | head -1
  drwxrwxr-x root/root         0 2024-07-27 13:27 grass-8.4.0/

Kind Regards,

Bas

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