On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:47:57AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:42:35 +0100 > Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why not let the packagers decide for themselves? Packagers should > > decide on their own how the spend their time best. This should not be > > in the scope of FESCO. > > > > I can't really see how compat-packages could be a threat to Fedoras > > release cycles. > > > > Not trusting packagers is a threat for fedora. > > When those compat packages start failing to rebuild, that slows us > down. Hopefully there are procedures to avoid being slowed down by packages that don't rebuild. I don't think that compat packages are th emain packages not rebuilding, unmaintained packages are. > When too many of our packages rely on those compat packages, That is another issue. I am all for policy that discourages shipping packages in fedora that use compat packages. > that slows us down. When the package maintainer for the non-compat > package gets bogged down with bug reports and requests for assistance > with the -compat package problems that slows us down. That is a real issue, however the compat package maintainer should take care of those bugs and the primary maintainer can, like anyone else and like any other review object to the review. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
