On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 13:34:48 -0800, John Reiser jreiser@bitwagon.com wrote:
Another related note is that someone wanted a src package for it because they had something that would only build with access to the source. I am not planning on providing that, but wanted people to be aware we had a request for it.
The package that needs the src is the upx package. The coupling is very strong, therefore a physical copy of the entire specific version of lzma source was put into the source for Fedora's upx. The URL for that lzma source was recorded, but not used as a SourceN:. It is expected that the URL will become stale.
Do you think packaging that as a subpackage is worth while? A couple of other packages seem to do that kind of thing?
Where is an appropriate location to put the source?
Is a buildrequires on a package that provides source allowed for packaging?