Ulrich Müller <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2025, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > >> We release Org mode on ELPA (https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/org.html) >> including tarballs. > > AFAICS, there's an uncompressed tarball for the newest release and > compressed tarballs (using lzip) for older releases? > >> Let me know if you can easily source tarballs from ELPA. If not, we can >> try to come up with something easier for distro maintainers. > > Unfortunately, this doesn't play well with Gentoo's workflow. We cannot > use the uncompressed tarball because it will be gone for older releases > (which may be the release in our stable distro tree), and the compressed > tarball doesn't yet exist when we add an ebuild for the newest release. > > An additional compressed tarball also for the newest release would fix > this problem for us. > > We'd also prefer a more common format, e.g. xz instead of lzip (which > isn't supported by our standard unpacker), but this is a minor issue.
CCing emacs-devel. We are discussing distribution of release tarballs for Linux distros (not just for M-x package-install). It sounds reasonable to produce compressed tarballs for the latest package releases in addition to uncompressed. Also, I am wondering about the policy for keeping the older tarballs. This may be important information for distros that keep older versions available for a long time. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
