Packages based on CVS sources

[Rex Dieter]

Wart wrote:
> What is the policy for building packages for software that does not yet
> have upstream source tarballs, but only maintains the software in CVS?

Makes it impossible to verify upstream sources for review.  For new 
packages, definite bad idea.

> Am I allowed to pull the CVS sources and make my own source release?
> Obviously, I would rather that this is all done upstream, but in case
> they aren't responsive to such requests, what are my choices?

The only case I can think of that *may* be acceptable: to update an 
existing package, with grave bug(s), but that should be a rare exception.

-- rex