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authorJerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>2013-09-06 08:14:15 +0200
committerPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>2013-09-08 22:44:23 +0200
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change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible
[Peter: leave change xz tarball format to not end up with circular deps] Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ system is based on hand-written Makefiles or shell scripts.
The Makefile begins on line 7 to 11 with metadata information: the
version of the package (+LIBFOO_VERSION+), the name of the
-tarball containing the package (+LIBFOO_SOURCE+) the
-Internet location at which the tarball can be downloaded from
+tarball containing the package (+LIBFOO_SOURCE+) (xz-ed tarball recommended)
+the Internet location at which the tarball can be downloaded from
(+LIBFOO_SITE+), the license (+LIBFOO_LICENSE+) and file with the
license text (+LIBFOO_LICENSE_FILES+). All variables must start with
the same prefix, +LIBFOO_+ in this case. This prefix is always the
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