On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
All that has been pointed out is that reviewers appreciate
ready-to-use
URLs, which they can cut'n'paste into console or browser to fetch a
tarball from upstream. It has been pointed out that some packagers
tend to obfuscate URLs with macros to a degree that is far from smart,
e.g.
Source0:
http://foo.bar/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}rc1.tar.gz
and that is bad taste and bad style. Or it turns out, the URL hasn't been
updated or verified in a longer time and is not true anymore.
Absolutely true. This is the reason I *always* check URL, Source* and
Patch* fields for every new version of my own rpm's by copying/pasting
into a browser and/or wget/curl, so I avoid macros in those fields too.
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