On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:04:47AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Shawn Starr (sstarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Please don't force packagers to have to bug upstream about what changed. Unless another set of Fedora people > > want to dig for that information to update the packager. Some of us don't have the time to nag upstream about what they changed. > > If you don't have the time to find out, *as a maintainer*, what changed, > you shouldn't be maintaining it. I don't think that's true at all. As a *packager*, my job is to package correctly and respond to packaging bugs. Sometimes that involves a little bit of code maintenance -- so you need to be a jack of all trades^Wprogramming languages -- but I am by no means an expert on the ins and outs of every version of every package I look after. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
