On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:00:56PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as you should be aware, alioth.debian.org will be decommissioned with > > the EOL of wheezy, which is at the end of May. The replacement for > > the main part of alioth, git, is alive and out of beta, you know it > > as salsa.debian.org. If you did not move your git repository yet, > > hurry up, time is running out. > > > > The other important service from the alioth set, lists, moved to a > > new host and is now live at https://alioth-lists.debian.net [1]. > > All public list archives moved over too and will continue to exist > > under the old URL. > > What about the most basic service, the download page ? > (like <https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=101016>) > > According to > <https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Deprecation_of_Alioth> > there is no equivalent on salsa. > > git tags are not a suitable alternative because true release tarballs > include files generated by autotools (among others) that are not in > git, and git tags tarballs are not signed (signed tags is an different > concept). > > This unfortunately makes salsa unsuitable as a project homepage. Create a gitlab-ci job, build your files and provide them under a gitlab page. So you are wrong, salsa can work as it.
Alex