Dropping Base X group? [Was: Re: KDE logout options with F8]

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Nov 5 09:26:36 UTC 2007


On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:31:20AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> I have developped halevt to replace ivman, but so far
>> nobody has packaged it (I don't want to maintain it in fedora since I am 
>> upstream). 
>
> I don't understand that logic. Why wouldn't you want to maintain it in 
> Fedora just because you are upstream?

Because I think that being upstream and the primary maintainer of a
package in fedora (or any distro) is not a very good idea. If there are
conflict of interest between upstream and the distro (think about name
space, install paths, quality), I think that having a maintainer who is
not the primary upstream maintainer is a good thing. Having upstream
co-maintain, or even do the packaging work is a good idea, but I think
that upstream should not have the last saying for the package.

--
Pat




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