On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 12:44 -0700, 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. No, and no. That's what Moblin does, and you can ask Peter Robinson how much of a pain it is. If we want to ask upstreams to do tarball releases, I don't see why we should be making assertions like that. PS: Talking to Moblin guys on fixing the lack of tarballs -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
