Handling of unversioned upstream sources

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:52:04PM +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?

It is a soft topic, but if you do rename the sources, please try to
keep the proper timestamps, and don't repackage a tarball, e.g. if you
rename foo.tar.gz to foo-1.2.3.tar.gz and ar tempted to fix the
directories inside as well, please don't. :)

> Best Regards:
> 
> Jochen Schmitt
> 

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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