<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Michael,</font><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">My belief is that if someone uses the "Release" mechanism, that is covered by</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">the sentence which states: </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;line-height:18.24px">If the upstream </span><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;line-height:18.24px">does</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;line-height:18.24px"> create tarballs you should use them </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;line-height:18.24px">as tarballs provide an easier trail for people auditing the packages."</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;line-height:18.24px">By creating the tag, upstream has clearly indicated their intent; who are we to second-guess them? </span></div><div>The commit hash part comes into play when a Revision or Tag has not been created.</div><div><br></div><div>I also added some verbiage to my draft which discusses your point about the different naming conventions that </div><div>you have observed. </div><div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2px"><br></span></font><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Michael Cronenworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@cchtml.com" target="_blank">mike@cchtml.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 06/23/2015 12:09 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote:<br>
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I'm working on a revision here:<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gbcox/PackagingDrafts/SourceURL" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gbcox/PackagingDrafts/SourceURL</a><br>
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I'll take a look at that and see if I can clarify since I'm already working on it.<br>
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Thanks, Gerald.<br>
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Are you proposing to include or exclude the URL types that use the "Release" mechanism? Some interpret the guidelines to exclude them, but as I noted many packages interpret they may include them.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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