Handling of unversioned upstream sources
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Jun 21 21:11:58 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 22:52 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> unfortunately, I have found some review request, where the upstream only
> offers
> unversion sources.
>
> The issue of this sources is, that you will not be able to access to the
> upstream code in the
> future, if the upstream has changed the content of this unversioned.
>
> So I want to ask, if there any guidelines about this topic?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL
See the Revision Control section. If they don't even have an SCM like
cvs or svn, then the best you can do is basically create a dated
tarball.
josh
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