Hi, there are more and more discussions about packaging issues in EPEL (repotag, fedora-usermgmt) where people request EPEL-specific packaging rules that are different from the ones used in Fedora, that got and get defined by the Packaging Committee. Having special packaging rules in EPEL could afaics lead to situations where packages aren't easily portable between Fedora and EPEL. I think this would be qite bad and not what we want -- especially in the long term. To avoid that I'd like to ask FESCo and the Board to clarify the position of the Packaging Committee and its relation to EPEL as well as what Packaging rules get used for EPEL. It's afaics like this: The Packaging Committee handles all issues around Packaging for both Fedora and EPEL. The EPEL-SIG can define rules about maintaining packages in the repo (like for example the "Package Maintenance And Updates policy for EPEL "http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies/PackageMaintenanceAndUpdates ), but no exceptions for "theoretical" packaging (e.g. how to write spec files) itself. Is this correct? Do you guys want something different? If this is correct: Can you please make something like the above official then? CU thl P.S.: This mail is my own opinion -- I'm not sending this on behalf of the EPEL-SIG _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
