Hi folks! So I got bitten again today by the situation where the primary contact for a given package considers the 'canonical' source for the spec file to be some external SCM, and finds it a problem when someone (e.g. a provenpackager like me...) changes the package directly in dist-git. This is at least 50% my fault for not trying to check in before changing the package, but at the same time, it'd really be helpful if packagers who do this could note it clearly and prominently in the spec file, with a direct link to the external repo in question. Fedora dist- git usually is supposed to be the canonical location for Fedora package files, but if you're following a different workflow, it'd really help avoid problems if you at least explain this prominently in such a way that someone who just goes directly to dist-git will be aware of it. It's been the case for a while now that Fedora is supposed to be broadly collaborative and no-one has exclusive 'ownership' of a package any more (hence the name change to 'primary contact' from 'maintainer' or 'package owner'), so I think it's reasonable to expect this. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
