On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:00:45 +0200, Axel wrote: > We had a discussion with Max and Mike at LinuxTag about this last year > and the common approach was that Fedora packagers would be kindly > asked to check and cooperate with (major) 3rd party repos instead of > blindly packaging creating the incompatibilities (actually this was > more in the loght of EPEL than Fedora proper). Unfortunately this was > never really followed up after the meeting. Interesting. Why do Max [Spevack] and Mike [McGrath?] assume this is feasible? This is different from the results of previous discussions within old FESCO, FESCo and another major 3rd party repo. The participants of previous discussions [to my knowledge] have all found that it is not feasible (or requires too much effort). What has changed? Do the members of the current committees have a different opinion? One could establish a list of "big players" in the 3rd party repo scene, specific repo URLs, and corresponding guidelines, and make it a MUST item on the list of things to do during package review. That would increase the hurdle quite a bit for the packagers and reviewers. And there are no tools available that check for conflicts with arbitrary repositories. Some existing [unofficial] scripts either need local access to all packages or run for quite a long time. There have been conflicting duplicates in the review queue as well as within the Fedora package collection. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
