Why github release assets have two different icons? What each icon represent?

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I am trying to understand why there are 2 different icons for github release assets. What each icon represent?

I have tried to look for information before asking. I couldn't find any answers. It could be I am confusing things, or do not know the exact keyword that should be used.

The two different icons can be seen, for example, at Assets of openssl releases. Another example is Assets of qpdf releases. The Assets section are next to the bottom of the pages.
I think I can learn a great deal of information for the icon of the Source code at the documentation for github releases. Downloading source code archives from the repository view, for example, actually displays one of these two icons step 3, Click Download ZIP. Another page has information about the Stability of source code archives.
Where can I find documentation for the 2nd icon?

[miguelsalva]

I had to look this up once too. The two icons are two different kinds of assets:

• The package icon is for files the maintainers uploaded themselves (binaries, tarballs, .asc signatures, checksums). Those stay exactly as uploaded.

• The zip icon is only on the two "Source code" entries, which GitHub generates automatically from the tag on every release. Nobody uploads them and you can't delete them. That's the part the "stability of source code archives" docs are talking about, since they get built on the fly.

That's also why openssl ships its own tar.gz next to the auto-generated ones: theirs is signed and the checksum never changes. The uploaded kind is covered in the releases docs here: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/about-releases

[e-Gyi-qO2]

It could be one icon is attached to @actions/create-release, and the other icon attached to @actions/upload-release-asset, but this is only a guess. Both @actions/create-release and @actions/upload-release-asset are referred to by Release-AIO.