On Mon November 24 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:54:43 +0100 > > opensource@xxxxxxxxx (Till Maas) wrote: > However, they have not been marked 'dead.package'. > So, either the maintainer who orphaned them didn't do that, or the > expectation was that someone would pick them up soon. A dead.package file only needs to be created for retired packages[1]. The orphaning procedures do no tell to create it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages#Orphaning_Procedure > > > till:BADURL:aircrack-ng-1.0-20081109.tar.gz:aircrack-ng > > > > This is a svn snapshot, therefore there is no URL available. Is there > > some way to indicate this to your script? Another SourceX of this > > package is aircrack-ng-tarball which is a script that can be used to > > generate the snapshot. I spotted some more packages in the list that > > contain a date in their tarball and therefore are probably snapshot > > releases. > > if it's a snapshot, why does it have a URL? > It currently is: > Source0: > http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-%{version}-%{alphatag}.tar.gz > > But it should just be: > Source0: aircrack-ng-%{version}-%{alphatag}.tar.gz Good catch. It was left over, because it used a snapshot from upstream before. > And have a commented section above describing how it was generated. I will add this, too. I believed that adding a appropriate script to generate the snapshot is enough, but there is no good default way to do so, therefore I will add a comment. Regards, Till [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife
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