Hi Pravin,

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, pravin....@gmail.com
<pravin....@gmail.com> wrote:

>   I will soon package it for Fedora. While checking it first i have some
> comments regarding release pattern:
>  1.  Downloading tarball from https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi/downloads
> gives tarball name as aravindavk-Gubbi-v1.0-0-gffa4163.tar.gz, may be
> Gubbi-fonts-<version> or gubbi-kannada-<version> will be good.
>  2. Extracting it gives name folder name aravindavk-Gubbi-ffa4163, i think
> it should be Gubbi-fonts-<version>

To be frank I never tried direct download from github tags while
packaging for Debian. First release Aravinda had given a separate
tarball but then we found tagging is sufficient so he deleted the
tarball. Debian has a service which we use inside our watch file to
get tarball and create symlink with proper name when new version is
released. [1] [2] (all done automatically when we run uscan command)

But I should say I had to struggle to get it work ;). So @Aravinda I
think its better you provide a nice tarball like lohit project either
on your server or in sanchaya server :)



[1] Watch file:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-in/fonts-gubbi.git;a=blob;f=debian/watch;h=6e125d227ba7da0d0ba7a7596c85361fc7dd10a7;hb=HEAD
[2] githubredir.debian.net

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