Re: [Bug-tar] Re: tar-1.22.90 released

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Can you please push the signed release tag to tar.git to reflect this release?

OK

> Also, it would be nice if you considered using git submodules, to make it 
> easier to definitively track which commit of gnulib.git and paxutils.git you 
> used when building tar releases.  Otherwise, comments like "The new testcases 
> require paxutils commit f653a2b or later" in commit 51aee27 are harder to 
> enforce.

It's not critical to "enforce" it. The README-hacking says clearly that
we "do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
these packages", so that anybody wanting to fiddle with the git version
knowns he should always have latest versions around.

Regards,
Sergey