* Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080518 15:17]:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:44:49PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > I'd suggest to start with making pristine upstream tarballs (or pure
> > subsets of those) obligatory. No modifications allowed in there and no
> > exceptions.
>
> How would you define "no modifications"?
I think we already have a definition for that.
> Even a subset already implies modifications.
That's why I explicitly mentioned it. That is what repacking is supposed
to be limited to. (and doing this in itself is quite limited at least by
the text of the devref)
> But what about a snapshot from $VCS_OF_THE_DAY? The exists no pristine
> tarball.
When no upstream exists then obviously putting the available stuff in
one (or using one of the available methods like make dist) is the obviously the
nearest approximation.
> And if someone really wants to do that he
> may pull the source unmodified from its own fork which is resynchronized
> for each version.
I'm not against forks. But who forks should also accept upstream
responsibilities.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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