[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] whois: use github repo as home page
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Aug 15 10:56:21 UTC 2017
Hello,
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:10:17 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > But we generally prefer upstream provided tarballs, aren't we? Moreover, in
> > this case the Debian repo provides a smaller .tar.xz, and an upstream computed
> > SHA256 in the .dsc file. You don't get that from github.
>
> On Sunday, I was going to ask the same question, and came to the same
> conclusion about the tar.xz and the sha256. Unfortunately, I don't remember why
> I didn't just apply it then and there...
I definitely don't agree here. We should use upstream when it exists,
even if it provides things that are less "convenient" than Debian.
Otherwise, we're going to convert a *lot* of packages to use tarballs
from Debian rather than from upstream.
What will happen when we'll want to bump to a new upstream version that
hasn't been packaged by Debian ?
Sorry, but I definitely disagree here. Please use the real upstream.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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