Packaging Guidelines - creating tarball from VCS with script

[Emanuel Rietveld]

On 05/14/2012 03:02 PM, Tomas Radej wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if Packaging Guidelines could be amended so that even when creating tarball from VCS, using a standalone shell script would be mandatory (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Using_Revision_Control ). I believe this could allow easier reviews and package updates as there would be no need to copy&paste code from comments, and checking for package's checksum could be (at least partially) automated for the fedora-review tool.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,

I think this is a very good idea, and I'm going to do this for my next 
package. Thank you for suggesting it.

Emanuel