On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 8:27 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Unfortunately it seems that many of these packages have had the > BuildRoot tags _added back in_ after previously having them removed. A > number of the commits even delete existing changelog entries, a sure > sign that someone is just copying the specfile from some outside source. > > As a reminder, the Fedora's git repository is the canonical location for > Fedora's spec files. Simply overwriting what is in git with a file > copied from some external source is not permitted by the Fedora > packaging guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Spec_Maintenance_and_Canonicity That's impossible to enforce and unrealistic. We can say that as much as we'd like, but there is nothing we can do to prevent people from syncing from elsewhere. Having it in the guidelines seems to give a false sense of security. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/UTDOKBXZOBUPBHHYTVMJO7CIIH5SDBQ2/
