[meego-packaging] autospectacle

[Anas Nashif]

On 2010-08-03, at 1:30 PM, Alexander Kanevskiy wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:39, Anas Nashif <nashif at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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, tag is not a "random state". it's a tag for release, and the
> only thing that we need to do in case of having reproducible tarballs
> is something like pristine-tar tool, so anybody can get the same
> tar.{gz,bz2} with the same checksum everywhere.

Where exactly did I say tag was a random state? 
I say above that a tag is what would be called a release, anything between two tags is a random state that has not been verified or "released" by the maintainer.


Anas


> 
>> Anas
>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Fathi
>>> 
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