[Fedora-packaging] Mono Packaging Issues

PFJ paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Wed Jun 14 08:38:44 UTC 2006


Hi,

> In the boo package review there was one revision where the upstream
> tarball was all precompiled .dlls and .exes.  After pointing this out,
> the packager (Paul Johnson) found the tarball with source and packaged
> that instead.  If it's common for upstream projects to distribute both
> source and binary versions of their mono packages we'll have to be
> vigilant about checking the source tarballs really contain sources and
> not precompiled CIL PEs that install with make install.

The boo packagers made a boo-boo with 0.7.6-2334 which was fixed in 2337
and that mistake was they didn't include the source.

TTFN

Paul
-- 
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