Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> The only way to ever make declaration of bundling reliable is to
> automate it somehow.

FWIW when I bundle, I use git submodules.

A major benefit of this is that it makes it a lot harder to patch
the upstream "accidentally" - you have to make an explicit
fork if you do end up doing that.

However, Fedora mainline rel-eng currently uses tarballs, and
has no idea about git.