Packages based on CVS sources

Fri Dec 9 18:22:22 UTC 2005

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Wart wrote:
>> What is the policy for building packages for software that does not yet
>> have upstream source tarballs, but only maintains the software in CVS?
>
> Makes it impossible to verify upstream sources for review.  For new packages, 
> definite bad idea.

How is it impossible? Just documenting (in spec) how the source was 
retrieved, eg 'cvs export <some tag or date>' allows reviewing against 
upstream sources.

 	- Panu -