490068 – dev-vcs/hgsubversion: binary file in gentoo-x86

Bug 490068 - dev-vcs/hgsubversion: binary file in gentoo-x86

Summary: dev-vcs/hgsubversion: binary file in gentoo-x86

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal QA (vote)
Assignee:	Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED)

URL:	http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/f...
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Blocks:	binaries-in-git
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Reported:	2013-11-01 18:44 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2014-02-05 13:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-11-01 18:44:54 UTC

As reported, see URL: 
dev-vcs/hgsubversion/files/invalid_utf8.tar.gz

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

Comment 1 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2014-02-05 13:31:23 UTC

  30 Jan 2014; Ian Delaney <idella4@gentoo.org> +hgsubversion-1.5.1.ebuild,
  -files/invalid_utf8.tar.gz, -hgsubversion-1.5.ebuild:
  bump; update deps, remove -1.5 and invalid_utf8.tar.gz from FILESDIR (qa
  issue)