On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:45:26AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > He's proposing Debian-style source code forking into git repos and > having the build description merged into that source tree. It's > usually referred to as merged-source builds. > > Basically, we no longer use pristine sources as inputs for package builds.
Although, arguably, what constitutes a "pristine source" has changed. Release tarballs are often an afterthought -- or something generated automatically by GitHub -- while the tagged git tree is what the upstream project themselves consideres to be the true authoritative source. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
