https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198342 --- Comment #27 from Rüdiger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx> --- (In reply to Matthew Miller from comment #26) > (In reply to Michael Schwendt (Fedora Packager Sponsors Group) from comment > #25) > > Yeah, it kinda circumvents the snapshot guidelines, if one manages to find > > an online service that can generate snapshot tarballs from github and other > > repos. Possibly short-lived tarballs that are not available for download as > > long as the release tarballs. You end up with a source tarball that's 404 > > not found with no info on how to recreate it. > > I guess I would agree if the packager does it, but here, it's upstream, > linked from http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/. There's no upstream obligation > to preserve tarballs for _any_ releases forever, so I'm not sure why this > needs special handling. http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/ links to "Downloads" https://bitbucket.org/hroptatyr/dateutils/downloads and "latest snapshot" https://drone.io/github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils/files -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review