clement is a yum repository?

[Paul Howarth]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:29:55 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
>>> ftp://ftp.safe.ca/pub/clement-2.1/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: 
>>> [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
>>> Trying other mirror.
>>> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: clement
>>>
>>> Fix is easy to baseurl, but again, why?
>> Hmmm, what that for a shit (sorry). That's totally unacceptable -- from 
>> a legal standpoint and the technical standpoint, as it would result in a 
>> great mess if each and every package would ship their own repo file. 
>> (Not to mention the security implications this has.)
>>
>> Could someone please remove clement-2.1-241 (the older one has no 
>> repo-file afaics) from all the repos as quickly as possible 
>> (extras-signers are CCed to this mail)? tia!
>>
>> What to we do to prevent such shit in the future? Isn't this the second 
>> time this problem comes up? Wasn't it clement in the first occurrence, 
>> too? (Maintainer CCed, please comment)
> 
> Check this out!
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2006-November/msg02711.html

So the maintainer tweaked their local copy of the spec, built an SRPM 
and used cvs-import.sh to import it, hence losing Tibbs' earlier fix 
that removed the repo file. Looks ignorant/careless rather than 
malicious to me.

Paul.