On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr> wrote:

I think this is the core of our disagreement, many of the project we package are
doing this. Ask Remi, he maintains several hundreds of packages and he can
testify that this behavior is occurring also for projects that are packaged in
Fedora and in other distributions.
The fact that you find it hard to imagine is unfortunately not correlated with
the fact that it occurs, also for projects we (as in Fedora) are interested in.

I don't believe it is appropriate to throw the baby out with the bath water.

I've clarified that IF you believe a project is engaging in re-tagging you use

the commit hash method. Just because some projects are abusing a function

doesn't mean you issue a blanket ban.

What my draft clarifies is that it is packagers decision on which method he wants

to use; and it describes a clear procedure that must be followed if upstream is

engaging in re-tagging.

If you wish to use the commit hash method all the time when dealing with Git,

you can. There is nothing in my text which says otherwise.