On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a question on policies of how and whether Fedora-ARM patches are > rolled back into rawhide. The reason I ask is because I see overlap > between the required ARM specific patches between F11 and F12. What is > the policy for rolling these patches back into upstream and (more > importantly in case upstream is slow/reluctant to accept them) rawhide? In a lot of cases the people dealing with the issues have the ability to commit the fixes themselves so as to be able to push them directly upstream where necessary. > Also, what is the policy on new packages? Specifically, I found myself > in need of openssl098k compatibility package (need to run some binaries > from F11). This is pretty trivial to come up with (change the package > name from openssl-0.9.8k to openssl098k-0.9.8k in the spec file and > re-tar the openssl tar ball to extract to openssl098k-0.9.8k directory > instead of openssl-0.9.8k directory), but what I wanted to ask if > whether there is some kind of a policy for including things like this in > the main distro. It is likely that this would be useful to other people > who are less willing/able to roll their own packages. The policy on new packages is that they have to be in upstream Fedora. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
