[Bug 1198342] Review Request: dateutils - Command-line date and time calculation, conversion, and comparison

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198342



--- Comment #30 from Matthew Miller <mattdm at redhat.com> ---
> Ask yourself why Fedora's snapshot tarball guidelines have been created?

I think, primarily, because we want to deal in upstream artifacts, and a
tarball created by the packager instead needs explanation. Particularly in the
pre-git days, release tarballs were often only loosely coupled to whatever vcs
the upstream used and might go through some undefined transformation, which
would mean that packager-generated tarballs might be "off". When the tarball
itself comes from upstream, that seems like less of a worry.

And, again, how long will _any_ release be available from download from
upstream?  An upstream project could delete their old major release tarballs
monthly; there's nothing really magically different.

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