Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: Falcon - The Falcon Programming Language https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430307 ------- Additional Comments From rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx 2008-04-21 04:52 EST ------- (In reply to comment #23) > (In reply to comment #21) > > (In reply to comment #20) > > > Hello; > > > The tarball in the srpm is now on the site as > > > http://www.falconpl.org/downloads/0.8.8/Falcon-0.8.8-fc9.tar.gz > > > > The normal way would be to use an original upstream tarball and Fedora to apply > > patches. > > > > This is not about patches, but about adding a new license to the tarbal. Which is silly - Upstream should get used to using reasonable release policies Ralf, > it would _really_ help if you first read the entire ticket before shooting of > some random comments. I did - Openly said, your accusation embarrasses me very much. > > > I cannot update the original package because it would break currently released > > > debian-based distros (packagers would have tons of bells ringing as they monitor > > > sites download pages to check for updates with automated tools). > > Off cause upstream can do this! It's what 10000s of projects do. > > Upstream work must be independent of distro specific work (packaging an rpm). > > > > If it's not, then something is very broken. > > > > Upstream should never respin a tarbal without a version change or some other > change in the name of the tarbal. Correct. > replacing an already distributed tarbal causes > lots of troubles for lots of distros. Something which you know, again please > read the ticket first. They should release a new release - Even if a licence change is the only change. Such kind of incidents happen all the time. > Also the comment you were responding from is from _upstream_! An upstream who > has been very kind to Fedora, so kind as to dual license, and respin a tarbal > now (with a different name as to not cause all kinda checksum alarms to go off > which would have happened if the original tarbal changed). > > So I would like to say: Thanks Giancarlo Niccolai, the respinned (differently > named) tarbal will work nicely for us. I disagree. We should not ship temporary hacked forks. If a package doesn't comply to our licensing requirements, it's out. Upstream has the freedom to release a new release with the issues fixed. Their decision. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review