[eigen] Fwd: [Bug 391331] dev-cpp/eigen-2.0.13 fails tests

[Thomas Capricelli <orzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello,

This is the same problem as the one recently reported by *BSD devs.
Not providing clean tarballs seems to be a problem for all
sources-based distro, and ... I have to say that I kinda understand them.

regards,
Thomas

(source: from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391331)


The correct way to fix this is for upstream to provide a "sane"
directory name.
Using the vcs commit hash for the directory name on a release tarball
introduces "uncertainty" and causes more work for downstream.
Binary distributions that have developers manually download a tarball and
creating a binary archive on their box and that redistribute that to their
users are not too worried, but any source distribution that uses the
upstream
tarball and their "build recipe" to build a package, will need to
update their
"build recipe" (an ebuild in Gentoo) to update the change of the "moving
directory name".
So please, *pretty* please if you want to be a good upstream, provide
stable
URLs for releases and use as the directory name inside a tarball a good
convention, such as ${PN}-${PV} with ${PN} being the package name and
${PV}
being the package version.

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