Best practice for tagging built artefacts

We are in the process of migrating to subversion.
We are having a discussion on how we should tag our built artefacts /
deployment bundles.
We are sure we want to include our deployed artefacts in the repository.

We see 2 viable options, but we have not yet agreed which is best.

Let's assume that we already have a source tag, and that we have built
that and produced a set of files for deployment.

Option A) Commit the deployment files to trunk (or a branch), and make
another release tag from trunk (or a branch).

Option B) Commit the deployment files straight to a new tag in tags/
without them ever having been in trunk.

Different engineers here see different advantages and disadvantages in
the two options. It could be an advantage not to have the deployment
files in trunk, because we are only ever interested in tags of
deployment files.

What do you think is the best practice for tagging deployment files?

Ian

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