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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 7/28/24 2:51 PM, Nicklas Larsson via grass-dev wrote:
>> 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.

That's obvious.

Why that breaks the RPM packaging procedure is not, as it uses the 
tarballs from grass.osgeo.org too:

  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grass/blob/rawhide/f/grass.spec#_29

Kind Regards,

Bas

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