[Fedora-packaging] Source Url Guidelines
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Feb 15 17:55:35 UTC 2007
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said:
>>> As for the whole thing, I'd argue that they should be suggests-guidelines,
>>> not required-guidelines.
>> Why? Is there any reason why we don't want this information in the
>> package?
>
> I dunno - it just feels like something that should be 'please do this',
> not 'package rejected because you didn't do this.'
If folks want to be able to reliably verify upstream sources, this kind
of stuff is pretty much required. I can't think of very many legit
cases otherwise.
-- Rex
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