seth vidal wrote, at 08/31/2007 01:55 PM +9:00: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 23:29 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> seth vidal wrote: >> >>> People on the packaging committe - does that sound fair? >>> >>> -sv >> I'm always worried about making it harder to get the history related to >> the running code... (I guess there's still always cvs history, but...) >> >> I'd like to see all changelog entries remain that are related to patches >> still carried in the src.rpm - and not thrown away just because that >> patch was added > 1 year ago. > > So my first question is this: Why are we carrying a patch for >1yr? > Shouldn't it be being pushed to upstream? I guess there are some cases where Fedora maintainers sent patches to upstream but upstream developer refused to apply them. For xscreensaver (which I maintain) there is a patch "sanitize-hacks.patch" to rename some screensaver hack. This patch has been renamed several times (according to the version), but the changelog says that first version of this patch was introduced 3 years ago (with reflecting: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-August/msg00848.html ) AFAIK, the reply of the upstream was "Well, I can understand Fedora wants to apply the patch, but I don't think the patch is needed even for non-Fedora people". Regard, Mamoru -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
