[Bug 430307] Review Request: Falcon - The Falcon Programming Language

[bugzilla at redhat.com]

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.

Summary: Review Request: Falcon - The Falcon Programming Language


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430307





------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2008-04-21 04:24 EST -------
(In reply to comment #21)
> (In reply to comment #20)
> > Hello;
> > The tarball in the srpm is now on the site as 
> > http://www.falconpl.org/downloads/0.8.8/Falcon-0.8.8-fc9.tar.gz
> 
> The normal way would be to use an original upstream tarball and Fedora to apply
> patches.
> 

This is not about patches, but about adding a new license to the tarbal. Ralf,
it would _really_ help if you first read the entire ticket before shooting of
some random comments.

> > I cannot update the original package because it would break currently released
> > debian-based distros (packagers would have tons of bells ringing as they monitor
> > sites download pages to check for updates with automated tools).
> Off cause upstream can do this! It's what 10000s of projects do. 
> Upstream work must be independent of distro specific work (packaging an rpm).
> 
> If it's not, then something is very broken.
> 

Upstream should never respin a tarbal without a version change or some other
change in the name of the tarbal, replacing an already distributed tarbal causes
lots of troubles for lots of distros. Something which you know, again please
read the ticket first.

Also the comment you were responding from is from _upstream_! An upstream who
has been very kind to Fedora, so kind as to dual license, and respin a tarbal
now (with a different name as to not cause all kinda checksum alarms to go off
which would have happened if the original tarbal changed).

So I would like to say: Thanks Giancarlo Niccolai, the respinned (differently
named) tarbal will work nicely for us.


-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.