On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> "RC" == Remi Collet <Fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RC> AFAIK, this is NOT immutable (upstream can delete/update tag) so not > RC> valid. > > It's true that with raw git at least, upstream can delete or move the > tag, but this is one of those operations you really should not do with > git (because it screws everyone who might have pulled your repo) and for > all I know github may disallow it. 'Should not do' does not mean 'will not do'. I've in fact done it when accidentally publishing a corrupted tag for what was an internal, hyppy-only release candidate. > The incidence of github upstreams moving tags is probably less than > regular upstreams modifying tarballs and keeping the same name. Our > system already handles this kind of thing, and I don't see it is a > problem. Ghods, yes, pine and uw-imapd did this as a matter of standard practice. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
