[Fedora-packaging] How to handle unversioned upstream tarballs?

[Philip Prindeville]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "PP" == Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> PP> Well, I've (a) tried to get the owners to rename the tarball with
> PP> an embedded version number, so far without success, and (b) went
> PP> looking through the maintainers wiki on how to handle cases where
> PP> the tarball isn't versioned (and it must be done manually) but
> PP> didn't find it.
>
> You just deal with it the hard way.  CVS (or the sources mechanism, at
> least) has no problems dealing with unversioned upstream source.  The
> burden on the packager is higher but it's not really all that
> difficult to deal with.  It does make upstream source comparisons
> mostly useless, though, so we lose an important means of verification
> but this isn't something the maintainer can solve.
>
> If you asked upstream and they don't care then you've done what you
> can do.
>
>  - J<
>   

Yeah, about that... they don't seem to be using CVS upstream...  If 
they're using SVN, then they don't publish a public interface.

-Philip