Re: Packages which use the BuildRoot: directive

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:16:45PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> > maintain their specs wherever they want, but they should be prepared that
> > Fedora will change their specs and they should not overwrite such changes.
> 
> I said that as well.  What you're missing is the part where people
> tell the actual maintainers something changed.

  `git pull` with tell them, `git diff` / `git show` will show the
details.  Don't we expect maintainers to know basics of git?

> > It's not only changelogs, people keep re-adding BuildRoot and %clean section.
> > People keep overriding changes we've done in Fedora when they import from
> > "upstream".
> 
> Because nobody is communicating with upstream and fixing it there.  In
> some cases it'll be met with a shrug (like changelogs).  In many, it
> might actually result in upstream making a similar fix.

  The maintainers are supposed to communicate with upstreams.

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