[meego-packaging] autospectacle

[Anas Nashif]

On 2010-08-03, at 8:02 AM, <fathi.boudra at nokia.com> <fathi.boudra at nokia.com> wrote:

>> This needs to be fixed then. We don't accept anything but proper
>> tarballs in the MeeGo repo.
> 
> Links, please.
> If it isn't written in MeeGo packaging guidelines, it doesn't exist.
> 
>> No, a `git url + tag` does not constitute a release.
> 
> In a perfect world, we have release tarball and use only released software, etc...
> 
> The reality is:
> - we ship package without a proper release tarball
>  (in that case, upstream should be educated)
> - we ship git or svn snapshots
>  (in that case, it seems the maintainer responsability)
> 
> IMHO, we should require a reproducible way to create the upstream tarball.
> ie: git archive from a tag is fine.

Yes, usually that is what we call a release. But someone picking a random state of a git repo is a NO GO.
The standard way of doing this is to take last known release and apply patches ( diff last tag to head) and then merge back when there is a new release.

Anas

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fathi
> 
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