[Fedora-packaging] github URLs?

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:21:50AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "RC" == Remi Collet <Fedora at FamilleCollet.com> writes:
> 
> RC> AFAIK, this is NOT immutable (upstream can delete/update tag) so not
> RC> valid.
> 
> It's true that with raw git at least, upstream can delete or move the
> tag, but this is one of those operations you really should not do with
> git (because it screws everyone who might have pulled your repo) and for
> all I know github may disallow it.

It does not, you can easily remove a tag in github.
All it takes is git tag -d followed by a git push -f
 
> The incidence of github upstreams moving tags is probably less than
> regular upstreams modifying tarballs and keeping the same name.  Our
> system already handles this kind of thing, and I don't see it is a
> problem.

In which case we're ending up with no way of knowing which version of 0.0.1 we
built since upstream may tag it multiple times (and people do!).


P.Yves