370869 – sci-astronomy/ds9: binary file in gentoo-x86/

Bug 370869 - sci-astronomy/ds9: binary file in gentoo-x86/

Summary: sci-astronomy/ds9: binary file in gentoo-x86/

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Science Related Packages

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Blocks:	binaries-in-git
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Reported:	2011-06-09 20:16 UTC by Matt Turner
Modified:	2011-06-13 11:47 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2011-06-09 20:16:21 UTC

./sci-astronomy/ds9/files/ds9.png

Binary files like pngs should be distributed via distfiles. CVS (and in the
future, git) don't handle binary files well.

Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-06-13 11:47:32 UTC

+  13 Jun 2011; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> -files/ds9.png,
+  ds9-5.7-r2.ebuild, ds9-6.0.ebuild:
+  No binaryfiles in VCS please, #370869
+