On 2013-03-28, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi,
> I just noticed that for the recent releases the source and binary > packages have been published in the Maven repository. I saw that with > fileupload 1.3 and daemon >= 1.0.11. > Is this a "standard" practice? I would hope it is not. When I released Compress I manually removed them before closing the staging repo See my cry for help in <https://commons.apache.org/releases/prepare.html#Create_the_Release_Candidate> :-) > I find this very interesting because the sources.jar usually shipped is > great for browsing the code in our IDEs, but it can't really be used to > recompile the project (it doesn't provide the source of the generated > code for example). This is critical for downstream packagers like Debian > that insists in building everything from the source. The buildable > source distribution in Maven is likely to help them greatly. Why? IMHO packagers should be using the "usual" distribution mirror system. Stefan
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