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[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:40:18 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote:

> > > > the 'Source-tag may not have macros' decision
> > >
> > > I admittedly don't read every post on rpm-list, but I've never seen
> > > that discussion. Google isn't helping. Got a pointer?
> > 
> > The discussion was on fedora.us lists but it has never been a "decision"
> > or mandatory IIRC.  Anyway many people doing QA prefer macroless URLs
> > because it makes upstream source verification easier (think copy-paste).
> 
> Well, if it's not a macro, you may have the situation where someone 
> changes the version, forgets to change the Source-tag and releases a newer 
> version with older software. Would the QA person notice that ?

Yes, because the build would fail in %setup.

And the QA person takes a look at the src.rpm diff against the previous
release.
 
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