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

[Nicklas Larsson]

> On 28 Jul 2024, at 13:30, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via grass-dev <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> 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/
> 



The tarball from https://grass.osgeo.org/grass84/source/ is not the same as the one on Github, it also does not contain the "include/VERSION_GIT” file.

Best,
Nicklas




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> Bas
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