Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Merge Review: libxml2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226079 ------- Additional Comments From veillard@xxxxxxxxxx 2008-05-30 17:23 EST ------- Why do I have to explain to Fedora guys that changing pieces of a package from upstream is fundamentally wrong ??? Unless you have reported upstream and check with them you should *never* do that, and having a rule which by default forces such a behaviour is Just Plain Wrong please tell me who I need to complain, i.e. who made that decision, I want to be able to appeal. I would really like to get out of your head that a packager can just change bits which come from upstream freely. I would really like people to understand what bias led ultimately to the OpenSSL Debian fiasco. The fact that I am 'a Red Hat guy' just means I can't let you do that and think you're right. I need to react and not let this go, precisely. Okay, give me any good justification for changing the encoding of an XML file which is part of a package ? For the ChangeLog the explanation is that the fragments have accumulated over 10 years of developments, last I checked on this very problem is that some contributions came from eastern europe, others from western europe this is a mix of various ISO-8859-*, you just can't convert in one pass iconv won't make it, it will just silently corrupt the people names. It's way better to keep it that way, I can't expect upstream to just use UTF-8. In general encoding is a property of one character. The fact that Fedora assumes that all characters in a file must expressed with the same encoding means they give the liberty to the packager to convert the way it feels best and IMHO that's way over what a packager should be allowed to do. please stop assuming upstream is stupid, please stop assuming I'm just dumb, I may be a grumpy french but I have reason to react negatively when I see people trying to push on me thing which I think are very much broken. Go back to my comment #2, I actually made an effort to play by the rules. It's when I get a dogmatic answer that I start getting nasty. If forced, I would just drop all concerned text files from the package at least for Fedora, but converting files on the fly at packaging time is NOT something I will do in any package I maintain. Daniel -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review