On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:20:12AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 08/01/2009 01:14 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 00:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>> I don't think anybody is going to argue that extracting source from srpm
>> or pulling tarball + patches from our package cvs is ideal. So I don't
>> see why we should continue have a lame exception.
>
> Yeah, it's not idea. They should just pull it from our upstream source
> repo by the tag we apply when we make the release we package. Then
> they're much better setup to provide patches back to us in a preferred
> manner.
>
> Lets start moving beyond the tarball crap.
That's kind of side tracking though. Point is that SRPM as upstream
source is simply a stupid thing. We would complain loudly or atleast
whine about it if Novell or Mandriva or Debian did that. Wouldn't we?
Why should we have an exception anymore? I can't think of a single
reason why we should.
Because doing this:
Source0:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/anaconda/anaconda-11.5.0.59.t...
is really no better. All you are doing is forcing people to list a URL. Also,
if an upstream project doesn't want to host all that and wants to use the SRPM
as the source, who is Fedora to tell them they can't?
josh