'outdated' packages in rawhide

Xose Vazquez Perez xose at wanadoo.es
Fri Mar 19 11:46:48 UTC 2004


Warren Togami wrote:

> For now it is, but your contributions and discussion here has already 
> made a large impact into what is in the distribution.
> 
> In the longer run, the goal is to have many packages in both FC and FE 
> with @redhat.com and community maintainers.  Many peripheral end-user 
> packages like gaim, thunderbird, sylpheed, gftp, and others, would 
> greatly benefit from multiple maintainers and the combined man-power 
> because the risk is much lower than core dependency packages.  Some more 
> sensitive and likely-to-break-servers packages can have external 
> maintainers who are heavily involved upstream.  For example ESR + 
> fetchmail.

in others words, _influenced_ by the community but _controlled_ by Red Hat.





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