From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] whois: use github repo as home page
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:56:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170815125621.4d78c480@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6dfe8f7-5fa2-1ade-2aa5-eaeab13b271c@mind.be>
Hello,
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:10:17 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > But we generally prefer upstream provided tarballs, aren't we? Moreover, in
> > this case the Debian repo provides a smaller .tar.xz, and an upstream computed
> > SHA256 in the .dsc file. You don't get that from github.
>
> On Sunday, I was going to ask the same question, and came to the same
> conclusion about the tar.xz and the sha256. Unfortunately, I don't remember why
> I didn't just apply it then and there...
I definitely don't agree here. We should use upstream when it exists,
even if it provides things that are less "convenient" than Debian.
Otherwise, we're going to convert a *lot* of packages to use tarballs
from Debian rather than from upstream.
What will happen when we'll want to bump to a new upstream version that
hasn't been packaged by Debian ?
Sorry, but I definitely disagree here. Please use the real upstream.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-15 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-13 18:34 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] whois: fix build with NLS disabled Baruch Siach
2017-08-13 18:34 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] whois: use github repo as home page Baruch Siach
2017-08-14 20:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-15 4:14 ` Baruch Siach
2017-08-15 10:10 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-08-15 10:56 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-08-15 11:20 ` Baruch Siach
2017-08-15 12:07 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-15 15:23 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-08-13 18:34 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] whois: bump to version 5.2.17 Baruch Siach
2017-08-15 4:18 ` Baruch Siach
2017-08-15 8:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-15 10:12 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-08-15 10:54 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-15 16:22 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-09-06 9:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2017-08-14 20:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] whois: fix build with NLS disabled Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-16 21:09 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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