Re: pkg/51386: textproc/jo distfile does not match distinfo

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51386; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/51386: textproc/jo distfile does not match distinfo
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 01:38:25 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:05:00PM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
 >  For what it is worth, now that the big file is on f.n.o, the difference
 >  between the two appears that the bigger one includes configure (170KB of it)
 >  and the smaller one doesn't (they both contain configure.ac).  That one
 >  file probably accounts for the entire size difference (I did not bother to
 >  diff the contents, just eyeballed tar t output...)
 
 github provides the contents of the git repository for every tag.
 This is the file you saw.
 
 When packaging releases, the auto* tools include generated files like
 configure scripts so that downstreams don't need to have auto*
 installed. Well-behaved upstreams provide these tarballs, and jo is
 one of these. However, the github infrastructure in pkgsrc was used
 incorrectly, so the tag-tarball was downloaded, not the release one.
 
 I've just fixed that.
 Now the correct tarball will be fetched from github as well.
  Thomas