On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:25 -0500, Jima wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:25 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > >> How does that lock out *anything*? What are you even talking about? > > * E.g. about API, SONAME changes, compat-packages etc. If you're going > > to freeze APIs, SONAMEs etc. you're locking out packages. > > * By forcing maintainers to fill out forms or similar steps, you are > > imposing additional load on maintainers. I for one don't have any time > > available to waste on this kind of kid stuff. As a consequence you'll be > > facing me not upgrading packages. > > You don't have time to write a short snippet on why you feel a package > update is necessary, but you have time to argue for days about how this is > a bad idea. ... better fight a war once than having to cope with evil mal practices for ever. ... imagine to rebuild several dozens of packages depending on a base-package for different versions of Fedora because something in the base-package has changed. e.g. reflecting the ongoing perl-split to dozens of perl-modules and wanting to keep the diffs minimal. Depending on how things are supposed to work out ... this will be very tedious. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
