On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:23:41PM -0400, Lukas Nykryn wrote: >> Sorry for this mess. After a discussion, we have decided, that the >> best way would be to create bugs for every packages and then helping >> creating patches for specfiles. > > Just to be clear, I had no problem at all with the bugs being filed, > nor with the changes (which seem very sensible). I just pointed out > it would be better if you actually fixed the packages, or at least > offered to do that for packagers. > >> We want to give maintainers possibility to fix this on their own and >> because we want this change in all packages, creating bug seemed as >> a better option then spamming devel-list. > > So my suggested wording for the bug report would be to give the > packager a choice: either they do nothing now and can fix the package > themselves, or they indicate that they want you to fix the package. I am pleased that I got a bug report and not an involuntary patch, as it gives me a chance to take care of special cases and schedule things appropriately. I do agree, however, that offering to patch affected packages would also be a good gesture and a great way to help move the changes along. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
