[dist-bugs] Use cases, etc

[Joey Hess]

Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>   This is what GIT solved using recomputable sha1's for their objects.
> Once an object is in git, it's the same UUID for everyone. Moreover, if
> you think of an URL like a UID and not like a pointer anymore, one could
> have what you call aggregators that are "official" mirrors for that URL
> and remember about those for life.

Both of those things are in my proposal basically exactly as you
describe. :-)

The only reason to use URLs at all is for discovery. You have to have a
way to get from a bug's sha1/signature to one of the sites that tracks
that sha1/signature, and that's what the url is for.

-- 
see shy jo
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