From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSkkE-0003RU-87 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:49:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EA44E07BB; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106F2E07AA for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.178.2] (graaff.xs4all.nl [80.101.101.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7CB21B4047 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages From: Hans de Graaff To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20100626194639.GE4789@nibiru.local> References: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> <4C2518FB.9090800@gentoo.org> <20100626185104.GB4789@nibiru.local> <4C265345.6060102@gentoo.org> <20100626194639.GE4789@nibiru.local> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Xsp2oRzVOll1SDqp1QLv" Organization: Gentoo Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:48:53 +0200 Message-ID: <1277617733.7801.9.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 X-Archives-Salt: bb5f2fb8-bc53-4dbb-b23a-5a54953a0b41 X-Archives-Hash: c9ab77c5617ed8f403c5c7094e93446f --=-Xsp2oRzVOll1SDqp1QLv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:46 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging=20 > scheme, they don't actually have to create release tarballs, > just hack up a little script which creates them on-the-fly > from an canonical URL scheme (eg. oss-qm does exactly that). This breaks badly when the upstream tarball generation is changed. This happened to github a few months ago and broke all our manifests. To their credit they quickly reverted what turned out to be a gratuitous change, but if they ever need to make a real change we get to redigest everything. Kind regards, Hans --=-Xsp2oRzVOll1SDqp1QLv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iF4EABEIAAYFAkwm5kUACgkQZihJkut28Su65gEAm63cFu6QQl+Ac2bwqt6NGsKb H31IAaGOr88iHaP6KQEA/jmJLDNOnqrAZfTn79Fdt9h8kylCpScWTfFNGVB8UavJ =Jsvj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Xsp2oRzVOll1SDqp1QLv--