Broken dependencies: gdal

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Wed Mar 4 12:15:09 UTC 2009


Josh Boyer wrote, at 03/04/2009 08:54 PM +9:00:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:15:47PM +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
>> It's also using a non-verifiable source tarball:
>>
>> Source0:   %{name}-%{version}-fedora.tar.gz
>>
>> when the upstream source is easily downloadable at
>> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.0.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> That's unacceptable.
> 
> Are there instructions in the spec file on how to create that
> tarball, or why it's not the upstream tarball?
> 
> If not, file a bug and request that those either be added or
> that it use an upstream tarball.
> 
> josh

Well, upstream tarball has some files under some questionable
licenses and the maintainer removed them. Some explanation for
this is written in PROVENANCE.TXT-fedora in the modified tarball.

Mamoru




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