Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

Jason Corley jason.corley at gmail.com
Fri May 16 16:52:40 UTC 2008


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Overlapping repos are fundamentally broken, period. We've had long flamewars in the past about how ATrpms freely
> replaces Fedora packages making an unsupportable mess. Why are we allowing JPackage to pull the same crap?

1) JPackage predates Fedora and it's predecessor in interest fedora.us.
2) The packages that are in question come from JPackage and were
imported into Fedora (hence the jpp in version string).
3) Most of the JPackage repository is contained in generic, which has
a goal of being the same set of packages for all distributions we
support.  Only JNI code (or similar) is in the distribution specific
repositories, so removal of packages that conflict with Fedora from
the generic repo harms our user base that is not on Fedora.
4) JPackage does not support Fedora exclusively (nor do we intend to),
we support Mandriva, OpenSuSE, etc.
5) JPackage is not beholden to the Fedora project in any way, so you
aren't allowing anything.  We are an OSS project, just like Fedora is,
except we focus on something different than an entire OS.
Jason




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