Because the Git generated archive of the raw repository contents is not the same contents as the generated source packages. Specifically the former has no information about what version it is. The two ways to get this information are to have git history (i.e. you can use a clone of the repository to build) or to have a source build that has this generated information present (i.e. our generated version specific tarballs that have the relevant information cached inside).
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 5:41 PM Karl Kleinpaste <k...@kleinpaste.org> wrote: > github release process automatically produces tarfiles, zip and tar.gz. > Yet our release machinery also produces tarfiles, tar.gz and tar.xz. > Why? > _______________________________________________ > xiphos-devel mailing list > xiphos-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-devel >
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