On Jan 7, 2021, at 16:26, Andrew Udvare wrote:

> Sometimes the release tarball will come with the submodule source 
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9612#issuecomment-756376258 
> but this probably depends on the project.

If a release tarball doesn't come with everything needed to build the source 
(i.e. with submodules included), then it's of no use to anyone. So that would 
be a bug to report to whoever prepared that tarball.

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