Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 12:45 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> 
>> Nicolas, I believe you're wrong.  I can't find a single revision by 
>> devrim that syncs from the JPackage spec[1]_ to the Fedora spec.
> 
> It's difficult to say since devrim took over tomcat fedora-side 5 months
> ago and the last jpackage package release of tomcat5 was 7 months ago
> (there are more recent jpp tomcat6 package releases, which have been
> pushed fedora-side recently). What Jason complains about is that after
> taking all the jpp changes for a long time, when some problems were
> identified fedora side jpp was not notified of the fixes (aka downstream
> patch hoarding).
> 
Yes, and that is perfectly fine under our current system.  Different 
maintainers can treat the same package as having a JPackage upstream or 
disregarding it.  Even a single maintainer of a single package can 
change their mind after having maintained in one style for a while.

That's why I'm saying our current approach has problems.  We aren't 
committed to following JPackage as upstream and we aren't committed to 
not following JPackage as upstream.  So we will see flip-flopping and 
we'll eventually see places where a Fedora maintainer wants to diverge 
from JPackage and it causes issues for other packagers who don't want to 
diverge from JPackage.

-Toshio