On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:48:48PM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > The guidelines are not meant for projects that already follow the > standards but > quite the opposite, to be able to handle projects that do not behave > correctly > (and sometime projects that won't follow the standards despite asking > them). > > Did you read: A https://git-scm.com/docs/git-tag > Specifically the portion regarding re-use of Git Tags? A > What about the project that decides to change the contents of their > archive and re-uses > the exact same URL when re-posting?A How is that different?A If it's the > same thing,A > what are we doing about it?A What is the impact to Fedora if we did > happen to discover anA > application which re-used the same tag? A A That is a valid point, but we can reverse the problem: We can't do anything about upstreams that re-generate multiple times the archive for the same release, but with the current guidelines we can do something about the upstreams that are moving tags around. That sounds to me like a good reason to do so. > I think disqualifying the use of widely used feature because a handful of > ignorant people > may be abusing it, isn't appropriate. The only counter-argument I can think of right now is the frequency at which the abuse occurs on github. In my experience, it is much more frequent. > If I encountered a project that was doing that (and I never have), I would > point them to > the Git link above and tell them stop it.A It isn't acceptable and > reflects rather poorly on them. Again, we agree on this, but not everyone does and upstreams are still doing it, a lot. Pierre -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
