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.
Rahul