Release tar for 1.3.0

[Thermi]

Right now there's no tar file for the release 1.3.0. But it's there for older releases. Package maintainers depend on the existence of these files. If these files are not provided anymore, the files used for making the packages need to be changed accordingly. That's a bigger time investment than making the tar (also pertains a lot more people).

So could you please make a tar for 1.3.0, as for 1.2.3 and older releases?

[jborean93]

Can you share what is missing or insufficient about the sdist published to PyPI or the auto generated .tar.gz of the release? From my perspective this is just extra work that provides little to no benefits as there is already 3 ways you can get the source code for a release

• The sdist that is uploaded to PyPI that is related to the wheel that is published
• The auto generated .tar.gz of a release assert https://github.com/pythongssapi/requests-gssapi/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.0.tar.gz
• The GitHub auto generated .tar.gz of a commit https://github.com/pythongssapi/requests-gssapi/archive/93660c3f59c9955dabd0a208981329c2357930cd.tar.gz

In the past releases were done manually by a user offline whereas now the releases are automated using the GitHub actions step.

he files used for making the packages need to be changed accordingly. That's a bigger time investment than making the tar (also pertains a lot more people).

While I can sympathize they would still have to update the files/spec to point to the new version and ultimately it's a simple change in the URL needed to the newer ones.

Unless there is extra information I am unaware of I don't have any plans on re-adding the explicit tar.gz as it adds extra dependencies (actions) to the GHA pipeline for what seems to be little to no benefits. I'm happy to be proven otherwise though.