Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Mar 14 19:18:39 UTC 2008


Colin Walters (walters at redhat.com) said: 
> Anyways, I just spoke up because recently I discovered Debian was
> patching some of my software - the patch was useful, but did I ever get
> a bug filed in the issue tracker or a post to the discussion group?
> Nope.  Now I've been guilty of this myself before in the past, and in
> fact I maintained the GStreamer package years ago, and didn't do
> anything to try to work with upstream on the mp3 issue.   Now I think
> people do talk too blithely about patching or modifying upstream as just
> part of "packaging"; there is a lot of responsibility to be taken with
> the power to patch.

Waaaaaaaay back in the day (i.e., before Fedora) we asked the upstream
of the first of these packages (XMMS) about it. They weren't interested
in doing a release with it removed themselves.

Bill




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