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[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 18:44, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, 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 ?


> (On the other hand, proper upstream source verification is not IMO
> satisfied just by copy-pasting the URL and verifying the md5sum, but to
> also check that it's the expected, in some way official URL.  And iff
> SourceX's are *not URLs*, I can't figure out why macros shouldn't be
> used as much as possible.  So it really does not matter much.  History
> has shown though that URLs with macros tend to bitrot, resulting in
> incorrect URLs every now and then.  Not that it would be a huge deal or
> a "blocker" either :)

I'm not against automatic verification of URLs ;) On the contrary.

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