On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:40:18 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote:
> > > the 'Source-tag may not have macros' decision
> >
> > I admittedly don't read every post on rpm-list, but I've never seen
> > that discussion. Google isn't helping. Got a pointer?
>
> The discussion was on fedora.us lists but it has never been a "decision"
> or mandatory IIRC. Anyway many people doing QA prefer macroless URLs
> because it makes upstream source verification easier (think copy-paste).
Well, if it's not a macro, you may have the situation where someone
changes the version, forgets to change the Source-tag and releases a newer
version with older software. Would the QA person notice that ?
Yes, because the build would fail in %setup.
And the QA person takes a look at the src.rpm diff against the previous
release.
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