[Bug 183290] Review Request: libipoddevice

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Summary: Review Request: libipoddevice


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183290





------- Additional Comments From bugs.michael at gmx.net  2006-03-02 10:18 EST -------
Well, it's been a recommendation at fedora.us, and many packagers
have been so nice and accepted it.

Its background is that

 (1) packagers would simply copy URLs into the .spec file, making sure
 the download location from within their browser/downloader really matches
 the spec file

 (2) reviewers could copy the URL during review and would not need to
 use spectool or other forms of expanding the macros and retrieving a
 valid URL -- remember that reviewers also need to verify download
 locations, so visiting web pages, looking up download sections and
 comparing the URLs with spec files

With macros in download URLs, what often happens is that packagers don't
verify them, not even when a tarball changes from .tar.gz to .tar.bz2 and
moves to a different directory. In that case they simply change the file
extension to make the src.rpm work again. ;)


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