[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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