Les Mikesell wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Why, for example, couldn't the changes you say
fedora needs as a dependency for openoffice be included in the
jpackage repository for that fedora release and maintained as exact
copies?
You are again ignoring reasons already explained. Jpackage specializes
in Java packages and doesn't include all the packages Fedora does and
vice versa. So the dependencies cannot be the same. Even it does there
are differences in release cycles, patches, packaging and licensing
policy among other reasons. It is pretty difficult to have two
variants of a software with different maintainers in two different
repositories perfectly in sync all the time even with the best efforts.
The 'different maintainers' is the point in question. Did anyone offer
to maintain the duplicated packages upstream with needed changes instead
of forking incompatible ones?
Maintainers even if they are some which they are in some cases cannot
avoid changes introduced for other reasons. In some cases, they try to
stay in sync. In other cases, they have to deviate. Picking one point
and ignoring others just keeps continuing your discussions endlessly. So
end this discussion here and just move on.
Rahul
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