Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>>> I didn't blame anyone. Just stated facts.
>>>
>>> Same here.  No conflicts existed until fedora packagers duplicated 
>>> packages that already existed in well-known repositories and forked 
>>> them instead of mirroring.
>>
>> A cross distribution package repository is always going to be 
>> different from a distribution specific repository.
> 
> I don't see how that is relevant, given that the pre-existing 
> repositories mostly/all have added version-specific instances for each 
> fedora release.

Third party repositories follow their own licensing and packaging 
policies which are different even they target a specific distribution. 
This is what you fail to understand.

> Could you share some amusing anecdotes about how the existing 
> repositories refused to make these changed versions available when you 
> tried to provide them to maintain complete compatibility?

Refer to list archives in the specific repositories or past discussions 
even in this list. Giving you "amusing anecdotes" isn't my job.

> The reason really doesn't matter.  The effect and problems do.

The reasons do matter since you keep claiming incorrectly what it is 
despite being corrected.

Rahul