Re: Handling of unversioned upstream sources

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On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:11 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 22:52 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > unfortunately, I have found some review request, where the upstream only 
> > offers
> > unversion sources.
> > 
> > The issue of this sources is, that you will not be able to access to the 
> > upstream code in the
> > future, if the upstream has changed the content of this unversioned.
> > 
> > So I want to ask, if there any guidelines about this topic?
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL
> 
> See the Revision Control section.  If they don't even have an SCM like
> cvs or svn, then the best you can do is basically create a dated
> tarball.

If you do so, use the Revision field for the date, and start the Version
at 0.

- ajax

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