Michael Schwendt schrieb: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:08:36 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> For those of you that are not on fedora-advisory-board find attached a >> discussion with Michael Schwendt on that list that IMHO falls in the >> area of the Packaging Committee. Could you guys please handle that? tia! >> >> If the Committee thinks some parts of this discussion is the area of the >> FESCo please notify me or that the PC members that are part of FESCo >> bring it over to FESCo. Also please try to get Michael involved into >> this discussion -- he seems to be interested in this so he's probably >> one of the best people to find a solution for the issue. > >> But I don't think there is anything to do for FESCo *before* there are >> general packaging rules in the guidelines that clarify when Conflicts >> are allowed/acceptable and when not (for both Core and Extras). Further: >> Extras is no second class citizen -- if Core packages are allowed to >> conflict with other parts of Core then Extras packages should IMHO be >> allowed to Conflict with packages of Core, too. Sure, that should be >> controlled and I think FESCo in the future should approve each Conflict >> before it hits the repo. > If you had added these extra paragraphs to the original thread on f-a-b > list, I would have commented it with: > "Why can't FESCO simply decide whether they want Fedora Extras > to be free of package conflicts or not?" We *should* not "simply decide" without evaluating first if there are valid reasons for conflicts. All we have until now is this discussion -- we don't have rules or guidelines when conflicts are acceptable and when not. And I don't see any reasons why those rules or guidelines need to be different between Core and Extras, and thus it's IMHO business for the packaging committee. If Spot/the Committee clearly says "No, that's not our area of work" then I'll consider it a task for FESCo again. > Or rephrased: > "Does FESCO want a full install of Fedora Extras and Core to be > possible or not?" Well, Core has conflicts with other core packages afaik. So the above will never work afaics, with or without Extras. > [...] > > Beyond that, it can be decided whether packagers must add comments to > every "Conflicts" tag (and not just Conflicts, but also Obsoletes), > giving a proper justification. +1 CU thl -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
