GitHub is a terrible upstream

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/20/2012 08:24 PM, Corey Richardson wrote:
> (Let's try this again, but with less fail!)
>
> Getting source tarballs from github is a nightmare. See
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/148676.html
>
> The debian tool doesn't help very much because one still needs revision
> garbage in the specfile. Is there any more recent ways to mitigate this?
> Perhaps we could "lobby" github to change their ways, at least partially?

Yeah, I filed a support request with them a while back but they didn't 
seem that interested.  Perhaps if they got lots of complaints though 
they might pay attention.

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