On 12/12/2011 10:29 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:26 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: >> On 12/12/2011 10:16 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote: >> >>> There was some discussion a while back about preventing certain >>> extensions from being uploaded to the lookaside cache. Could ".patch" >>> be added to that list? >> >> Please don't do that. In my opinion the lookaside cache is the proper >> place for patches for which the Fedora package is not the upstream, for >> example ones downloaded from web SCM or other URLs. > > This is wrong.
Your opinion may differ, but no, it's not wrong. They're upstream files. > Patches should never be in the lookaside cache, because > it is very difficult to view them. IMO if that'd be a consideration, the lookaside cache shouldn't really exist at all, everything should be in git instead. > Patches in git can easily be glanced at in gitweb. Patches in external URLs can be easily glanced just by accessing the external URL which is in the specfile. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
