[Fedora-packaging] Packages without a dist tag

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:24:18PM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> Getting the whitelist from git seems difficult and error prone. Maybe it
> would be simpler to put it in the SRPM instead? That way, you would only
> have to unpack the matching SRPM and wouldn't have to access the git
> repo at all.
> Adding the whitelist file as a SourceXX would make sure it's included
> in the SRPM.

I assume that it's desirable to decouple test information —
particularly this kind of thing like how and which tests — from the
actual package. That way, you don't need to rebuild the package to turn
on or off a particular test.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader