RFE: Use generic names in packages

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 2 juillet 2007 11:05, Panu Matilainen a écrit :
>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>>> 2.  Making use of the $DISTVAR in Makefile.common:
>
>> 2) is one solution to "which repository this package came from" type
>> of question
>
> Could someone explain to me why repotags were not secure enough to
> answer this question, but dumping a cleartext file in %doc is?

My point was that while 1) would appear to be a reasonable thing to do, 
it's a solution to wrong problem. Those readme files aren't there 
to tell the user where the package came from, but to document packaging 
specific issues such as deviations from upstream behavior, default 
paths etc.

 	- Panu -