On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I understand that there are circumstances where the upstream
tarballs
need to be modified to removed content which is patented or cannot be
redistributed for some reason. However, should that be the extent of
the permitted modifications?
Take, for example, this comment from a current review ticket:
[...]
There are cases where further modifications are useful, eg. in order to
eliminate build dependencies.
But anyway, no matter what the changes to the tarballs/zipfiles/whatever are,
just like in the case of tar'ing up cvs/svn/etc snapshots, all of them should
be done with a script, and the script included in the source rpm plus a
comment in the specfile like "SourceX generated from vanilla upstream tarball
with SourceY". That helps everyone involved with the package.