[Fedora-packaging] Emphasize correct hostname for SF.net URLs

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Wed Jan 13 17:25:00 UTC 2010


> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
>> according toseveral messages about the source URL check in
>> fedora-devel, people used to think that the correct hostname for
>> Source0 from Sourceforge packages is download, but it is downloads.
>> Therefore I propose to emphasize the correct hostname in the
>> Source:URL guidelines by adding an admonition like this:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SourceURL_sourceforge_downloads_admonition

Hmm, what I have in several of my packages is
Source: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

Is this deprecated or likely to disappear?

			regards, tom lane


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