From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:56:21 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] whois: use github repo as home page In-Reply-To: References: <37040459db3e6ca01e2dc8236cf57a993f1831ed.1502649259.git.baruch@tkos.co.il> <20170814220354.3665d3eb@windsurf> <20170815041434.tlygmw6w4skyih6k@sapphire.tkos.co.il> Message-ID: <20170815125621.4d78c480@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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