Stuart Henderson wrote: > Gitlab still builds tars on the fly doesn't it, even with tags? (So > they may change later and fail distinfo checks). Self hosting, or > adding upstream to upload a tar somewhere, would be better. I think so. But since we really only need two text files, we can download directly from the online blob. This has the added benefit that it will be the same across git mirrors, unlike tars.
Right now that's being done with a git ref, but I've contacted upstream about tagging a version that could be used instead.
