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

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:20:39PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> 
> The bottom line is that if upstream doesn't version their tarballs, you
> can simply upload them to the buildsys and nothing will break.  So its
> really your choice as to whether you want to do some sort of local
> renaming or not.  Personally I wouldn't, since it really doesn't do
> much good.

I think that it is best left to the packager choice, but in my opinion
it helps knowing what source archive is packaged to rename locally and 
have the timestamp in package name. The downside is that automatic source 
detection, and automatic download doesn't work anymore.

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Pat