Release of libvirt-8.1.0

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 12:18:04AM -0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 10:18:25AM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > The 8.1.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
> > signed tarballs and source RPMs are available at
> >
> >     https://libvirt.org/sources/
> >     https://libvirt.org/sources/python/
>
> I just noticed that a couple of new files ended up in the release
> archive for 8.1.0 and its RCs, namely
>
>   .gitignore
>   .gitmodules
>
> I believe neither belongs there and, at least for the version in
> Fedora 35, 'meson dist' doesn't include them.

Turns out Fedora 35 has meson 0.59, but meson 0.60 started using 'git
archive' behind the scenes and this change is a consequence of that.

I'm looking into adding a .gitattributes file that prevents all this
cruft from being included in release archives.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization