[Fedora-packaging] github URLs?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III
<tibbs at math.uh.edu> 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.

'Should not do' does not mean 'will not do'. I've in fact done it when
accidentally publishing a corrupted tag for what was an internal,
hyppy-only release candidate.

> 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.

Ghods, yes, pine and uw-imapd did this as a matter of standard practice.