On Dienstag, 4. März 2014, 09:35:29 wrote Togan Muftuoglu:
"Michael" == Michael Schroeder
writes: Michael> Most of those packages don't put the commit ids in the tarball Michael> name, this should probably be changed to make things easier to Michael> understand.
Michael> At some point in the future OBS will maybe support this even Michael> more, then you won't even have a tarball anymore, just the Michael> unpacked trees.
Not something I would like to see, as one of the packages I maintain (darktable to be precise), has some patented code that is not possible for opensuse to have even as a source file, hence locally the packager has to run a script to remove the offending code creating a non-patented tarball which is then uploaded to OBS. So in this case the source tarball used for the package is not the same tarball provided by the upstream. I am sure there are other packages like this.
Yes, but that are rare exceptions. The feature Michael is speaking about will be always only one possible option, no features will go away. However, I still hope that we will get a policy for Factory that enables us to trace the upstream sources, no matter if it is a tar ball or any kind of SCM checkout. -- Adrian Schroeter email: adrian@suse.de SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org