There is the Non-responsive Maintainer Policy [0] however it takes way too long, and in the end you will get ownership of the package, so if you want to do a minor fix to a package (and the maintainer is not responding), you will either need to wait 3+ weeks and then get the package and do it yourself, or bug provenpackagers to do the change for you. Then of course people will either complain that they didn't see the bugzilla's for x,y reasons or that they didn't want the change from a proven packager. Not sure if there is a perfect solution that would satisfy everyone for this case. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Gnatenko" <ignatenko@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 3:51:54 PM Subject: Re: Unversioned and >/=/>= obsoletes On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 13:14:13 +0200, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > >> All guidelines mandate the use of </<= Obsoletes, but unfortunately we >> have some number of packages (179 source rpms -> 292 binary rpms) with >> unversioned Obsoletes or with >/=/>= Obsoletes. >> >> It is causing problems with upgrade (if package is getting re-added) >> or with 3rd-party repositories. Older package is obsoleting new >> package. > > Good luck with trying to get some packagers to fix such issues! > I appreciate the effort as I've reported similar things many times before, > but some packagers just don't respond in bugzilla or overwrite changes > applied to git after waiting months for a reply. Isn't this is a guidelines, so if packager ignores them - he should be punished? > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- -Igor Gnatenko -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
