On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:17:48 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 17:05 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > Ah, come on, this has nothing to do with disrespect. We already strip > > upstream tarballs and exclude certain stuff from it, because only parts of > > a product are compatible with our project policies. We disable features, > > we patch some things completely. > > (The term for those things is "fork") Technically, maybe, maybe not. Usually, real forks are not created at the package-level, but at the project level, i.e. they get a new upstream location and are actively developed [into a different direction than their original code base]. On the contrary, I don't think anyone really considers an upstream tarball, which is stripped off of mp3 codecs at the source-level or patched to use ABC instead of XYZ, a "fork". Still, it's an example of upstream products, which are not accepted in Fedora unmodified. If choosing a readable package name is considered as disrespectful, stripping and patching source tarballs is, too. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
