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Re:Git archive checksums may change by Kwpolska on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:43PM (#34601715)
That seems wasteful. Many projects do not actively advertise the GitHub tag downloads, and instead have their own stored and stable tarballs (or other distributions). And I suppose many users of those auto-generated downloads don’t care about their checksums.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by tinus_hn on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:42PM (#34615411)
The solution is simple: for a monthly payment of $1 per gigabyte the downloads are stable. Otherwise they are not.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by Kwpolska on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:15AM (#34653301)
Who should pay for this? The developer of the project might not care about the stability, but the maintainers of the various Linux distros might. Should the developer pay from their own pocket to make the Linux folks happy? Should there be some pool of all the Linux distros to collect the fees and pay for these projects?
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