https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2430610

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--- Comment #1 from Ben Beasley <[email protected]> ---
This looks pretty dubious. The upstream appears to be a one-time upload to the
Internet Archive, https://archive.org/download/dog_machine / 
https://archive.org/details/dog_machine. The upload to the IA claims it’s
public-domain (“Public Domain Mark 1.0”), but the spec file lists the license
as GPL-3.0-or-later.

I have not looked inside the source RPM at all, but I took a look at the spec
file, and it is obviously just copying a pre-compiled executable in place.
Everything in Fedora needs to be built from source[1]. There are other issues,
like hard-coded /usr/lib instead of %{_libdir}[2], no effort to support primary
architectures other than x86_64[3], odd installation of a C++ source file,
missing debuginfo[4] (because the binary is not built from source), no source
URL[5] without a good justification, and use of the Group tag[6].

It looks like this software was only published once, to the Internet Archive,
and only with the express intent of including it in Fedora? Even if the
intentions are good and genuine, that *looks* a little weird and even a bit
suspicious, especially considering the submission contains a pre-compiled
executable.

[1]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#prebuilt-binaries-or-libraries
[2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_macros
[3]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_architecture_support
[4]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Debuginfo/#_missing_debuginfo_packages
[5] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/SourceURL/
[6]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_tags_and_sections


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