On 08/01/2009 01:14 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 00:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> I don't think anybody is going to argue that extracting source from srpm >> or pulling tarball + patches from our package cvs is ideal. So I don't >> see why we should continue have a lame exception. > > Yeah, it's not idea. They should just pull it from our upstream source > repo by the tag we apply when we make the release we package. Then > they're much better setup to provide patches back to us in a preferred > manner. > > Lets start moving beyond the tarball crap. That's kind of side tracking though. Point is that SRPM as upstream source is simply a stupid thing. We would complain loudly or atleast whine about it if Novell or Mandriva or Debian did that. Wouldn't we? Why should we have an exception anymore? I can't think of a single reason why we should. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
