Broken dependencies: gdal

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 12:23:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:15:09PM +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote, at 03/04/2009 08:54 PM +9:00:
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:15:47PM +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
>>> It's also using a non-verifiable source tarball:
>>>
>>> Source0:   %{name}-%{version}-fedora.tar.gz
>>>
>>> when the upstream source is easily downloadable at
>>> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.0.tar.gz
>>>
>>>
>>> That's unacceptable.
>>
>> Are there instructions in the spec file on how to create that
>> tarball, or why it's not the upstream tarball?
>>
>> If not, file a bug and request that those either be added or
>> that it use an upstream tarball.
>>
>> josh
>
> Well, upstream tarball has some files under some questionable
> licenses and the maintainer removed them. Some explanation for
> this is written in PROVENANCE.TXT-fedora in the modified tarball.

Then I believe that is fine.

josh




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