[Fedora-packaging] Re: Modifying upstream tarballs

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:04:37PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>  I understand that there are circumstances where the upstream
> tarballs
>  need to be modified to removed content which is patented or cannot be
>  redistributed for some reason.  However, should that be the extent of
>  the permitted modifications? 
Yes, the pre-%prep preparations should be minimal and easily
reproducable for the reviewer.

Would you like to formulate a guideline change for voting upon? It
seems like most people are on the same side, so it should be an easy
item.

>  Take, for example, this comment from a current review ticket:
>  
>  #Original from http://membres.lycos.fr/agisite/prof.zip includes
>  #copyrighted executables. Generated new source by unzipping, removing
>  #DOS-related content, running dos2unix on the text file, and changing
>  #all filenames to lowercase for agistudio compatibility.
>  
>  Now, everything except the removal of the executables could be done at
>  %prep time in the spec, and that's how we'd insist that things be done
>  in the normal case where the upstream tarball (or zipfile, in this
>  case) needs no modification. 
>  
>   - J<
>   
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