>>>>> "AW" == Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: AW> Hi folks! So I got bitten again today by the situation where the AW> primary contact for a given package considers the 'canonical' source AW> for the spec file to be some external SCM, and finds it a problem AW> when someone (e.g. a provenpackager like me...) changes the package AW> directly in dist-git. But, uh, how does rel-eng do it? Or do these maintainers all yell at rel-eng after every mass rebuild? There are packages where people might want to request communication before people do work on the package. Those packages might be especially complex or have special bootstrapping requirements or a delicate dependency chain. That I can understand. The spec file in Fedora git not being "canonical", though, is simply not a valid reason. For Fedora's workflow, which involves a community of package maintainers who expect to be able to make use of the Fedora's infrastructure and tools, there can be no possible alternate canonical location for the spec. Someone who really, really wants to maintain a package in such a fashion must be prepared to merge back every commit made to the Fedora package. - J< _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
