Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of Ticket #13186, comment 12


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Mar 21, 2025, 2:45:12 PM (12 days ago)
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Robin Candau

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  • Ticket #13186, comment 12

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    3434> My stance on this is clear: If you provide a service to distribute and/or deploy software, you host the software.
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    36 Sure, but the software sources need to be downloaded before they can be hosted... Tarballs for new releases are not magically appearing on our side... We have to download them first, which is now more difficult than it used to be. This is what this ticket is about. The initial download of upstream sources used to be automated on our side and now became an extra manual steps for us ("us" being package maintainers of the filezilla related packages at Debian, Alpine, Gentoo, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE... Which, apart from Gentoo maybe, all uses type 1 package managers).
     36Sure, but the software sources still need to be downloaded before they can be hosted... Tarballs for new releases are not magically appearing on our side... We have to download them first, which is now more difficult than it used to be. This is what this ticket is about. The initial download of upstream sources used to be automated on our side and now became an extra manual steps for us ("us" being package maintainers of the filezilla related packages at Debian, Alpine, Gentoo, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE... Which, apart from Gentoo maybe, all uses type 1 package managers).
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    3838> As for the other two aspects, there are a couple of options: