I was looking for examples of nice packages for upcoming packaging workshop we
are doing in Brno. I made the terrible mistake of doing fedpkg clone
python-urlgrabber.
If there was some normal packaging issue I'd most likely just file a bug in
bugzilla, but this made my blood boil. This is one of our core components!
snippet from spec:
Source0: urlgrabber-%{version}.tar.gz
Patch1: urlgrabber-HEAD.patch
Guess what? The patch is 100k big. The tarball is actually smaller! Of course
the package does not even follow post-release versioning guidelines[1]. The only
good thing is that the tarball sha actually matches upstream released version
from 2009.
Now I *get* that yum uses new features of urlgrabber. But package maintainer is
also upstream developer. Just do the damn release ffs! Oh fun fact: yum is
actually in the same boat.
[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python-urlgrabber.git/
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Post-Release_packages
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Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
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