Re: Making "upstream" tarballs available

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 01:05 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > Agreed. In the case of system-config-samba the spec file has this
> > mention:
> > 
> > # We are upstream, thus the source is only available from within this
> > #source
> > # package.
> > Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
> > 
> > 
> > I'm cc'ing the maintainer on this to see if we could convince him to
> > move system-config-samba out to hosted.fedoraproject.org to solve the
> > above problem.
> > 
> > Nils,
> >  Would you be willing to move things off of elvis and onto
> > hosted.fedoraproject.org to help with the use of system-config-samba by
> > other distros?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > -sv
> 
> 
> Maybe the guidelines at 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL#head-413e1c297803cfa9de0cc4c56f3ac384bff5dc9e 
> can be modified to recommend using hosted instead of adding comments 
> that the SRPM is the canonical source?
> 
> L10N folks are moving from elvis to public cvs too. Maybe we can stop 
> using it entirely for Fedora.

So what Jeremy just mentioned to me is were delaying moving from elvis
until transifex is up.

-sv