Quoting Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Peter Robinson wrote: >> 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. > > Is there a formal procedure for that? My concern is that this process > doesn't seem to work out in a timely and positive fashion in a > significant number of cases (otherwise we wouldn't have that big a > required patch overlap between Fedora releases on ARM). http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines >>> 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. Will your packages compile against openssl 1.0.0x? >> >> The policy on new packages is that they have to be in upstream Fedora. > > How does one get a package into upstream Fedora? > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/NewPackageProcess At least I think this is what you are looking for. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
