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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: releaseme new requirement: non-conflicting files on case-insensitive FS/OS
From:       Kevin Funk <kfunk () kde ! org>
Date:       2017-11-20 16:20:20
Message-ID: 2779631.6evsfhoRZP () kerberos
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On Monday, 20 November 2017 16:50:58 CET Harald Sitter wrote:
> Guten Abend Everyone!
> 
> To aid with use of our tarballs on Windows and case-insensitive file
> systems, releaseme now makes sure [1] that the tarballs it generates
> are safe to use in such contexts.

Thanks for helping out on that front! 

Regards,
Kevin

> As this is a major problem for pretty much every source tarball as it
> prevents people from doing Windows builds and/or unpack on exfat/fat32
> this is considered a fatal flaw in the tarball. To that end if you use
> releaseme you may want to run tarme now so your next release doesn't
> get held up by case-insensitive file conflicts.
> 
> If you have any questions please do ask.
> 
> [1]
> https://phabricator.kde.org/R572:0936ab0e02551fe6d3e8ad07b97cd7d7d3d26838
> 
> HS


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