On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 18:44, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > the 'Source-tag may not have macros' decision > > I admittedly don't read every post on rpm-list, but I've never seen > that discussion. Google isn't helping. Got a pointer? The discussion was on fedora.us lists but it has never been a "decision" or mandatory IIRC. Anyway many people doing QA prefer macroless URLs because it makes upstream source verification easier (think copy-paste). (On the other hand, proper upstream source verification is not IMO satisfied just by copy-pasting the URL and verifying the md5sum, but to also check that it's the expected, in some way official URL. And iff SourceX's are *not URLs*, I can't figure out why macros shouldn't be used as much as possible. So it really does not matter much. History has shown though that URLs with macros tend to bitrot, resulting in incorrect URLs every now and then. Not that it would be a huge deal or a "blocker" either :)
