On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > I understand that there are circumstances where the upstream tarballs > need to be modified to removed content which is patented or cannot be > redistributed for some reason. However, should that be the extent of > the permitted modifications? > > Take, for example, this comment from a current review ticket: [...] There are cases where further modifications are useful, eg. in order to eliminate build dependencies. But anyway, no matter what the changes to the tarballs/zipfiles/whatever are, just like in the case of tar'ing up cvs/svn/etc snapshots, all of them should be done with a script, and the script included in the source rpm plus a comment in the specfile like "SourceX generated from vanilla upstream tarball with SourceY". That helps everyone involved with the package. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
