RFE: Use generic names in packages
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Jul 2 09:53:08 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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.
Duh, that should be "2) would appear..."
Need more coffee, desperately.
- Panu -
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