On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:49 +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:43:43 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > The Mandriva policy is a reasonable starting point: > > > > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia#Backports_policy > > > > it's sketchy and not greatly written, but the basic idea is that > > backports should only be 'leaf' packages (things on which nothing else > > depends) and libs required _only_ by the packages that are being > > backported. Packages on which other, unrelated packages depend shouldn't > > be backported. > > Sounds like the only way to package Firefox under such a backport scheme > would be to bundle Gecko etc. Yup. In MDV, Firefox isn't/wasn't allowed under the backports guidelines. I think this makes sense given how important it is and how easy it is to break other stuff by touching Firefox. Some stuff just isn't right for a backports repo. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
