[PROJ] mismatch between proj release tags and tarballs

[Greg Troxel]

Kristian Evers <kristianevers at gmail.com> writes:

> The one true source for PROJ(-data) packages is download.osgeo.org/proj/ <http://download.osgeo.org/proj/>. The PROJ-data
> archives found there are copied from the GitHub release. That is, the files named proj-data-x.y.z.*.

Thanks; I'll stick with them.

> The 1.2.1.tar.gz file you find in the GitHub release is basically just the repo checkout at that tag
> and put in a tar.gz file. Disregard it. As far as I am aware you can’t get rid of them from the GitHub
> Release page.
>
> Regarding the version numbers in the files. Yeah, it probably is a bit sloppy. I think we’ve always
> only used major and minor versions in the actual releases (also for previous iterations of the data
> package in the olden days) but somehow all three numbers found their way to the HOWTORELEASE
> document when we started the PROJ-data package. I guess it is more correct but since we haven’t
> yet had an opportunity to patch a previous release I don’t think we particularly need the last digit…

I am agnostic about x.y vs x.y.z but if releases are going to continue
to be x.y, it might be good to adjust HOWTORELEASE.  Perhaps nobody but
be will ever notice though.