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.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader