Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > 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. 'Expert on the ins and outs'? You don't have to be able to rewrite the program from scratch, but you should at least *look* when there's a new release to get some idea of what changed, if for no other reason than that will help you if you get bugs on it later. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
