[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] whois: use github repo as home page

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:56:21PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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 ?

As things stand now this is quite unlikely. The whois package Debian 
maintainer and the upstream developer are the same person, Marco d'Itri. The 
only upstream in-tree changelog file is at debian/changelog.

> Sorry, but I definitely disagree here. Please use the real upstream.

The real whois upstream README file says this:

  The canonical distribution point for releases of the program is
  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/ .

baruch

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