Problems with core review

[Joe Orton]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:42:09AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 08:30, Joe Orton wrote:
> > Use of $RPM_SOURCE_DIR is not covered in the packaging guidelines nor in
> > the review guidelines.  It's flagged by rpmlint, which, as the
> > guidelines *do* say, is often wrong.
> 
> And it has been pointed out to you many times _why_ the use of RPM_SOURCE_DIR 
> is bad.

You can't have this both ways, Jesse.

The packaging committee has clearly *not* agreed a policy on use of 
$RPM_SOURCE_DIR since the guidelines are silent on this.  Do you agree 
with that statement?

Various people have pointed out some positive and some negative aspects 
of $RPM_SOURCE_DIR in this thread.  Do you agree with that statement?

[Truly, we have become debian-devel.  Congrats to all.]

joe