compat-python, Zope...

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Oct 15 07:36:09 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:17:25AM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
>
> I've taken these packages as a starting point. I will need additional  
> python modules and I do also need compat-python23 and why not take these  
> packages into Fedora. Why is everyone wicked about maintaining packages  
> in a third party repository? I know rpmfusion and most packages seem to  
> be quite good. What's the reason for not taking them into Fedora -  
> except those packages with non-floss licenses?

This should be the only reason. I think that preventing packagers to do
compat package is wrong. But in general FESCO give reason to the main
packager (and if I remembmer well it was also the case of a parallel 
installable newer version). 

In my opinion, instead, packagers should be co-maintaining the main
version when they do a compat package, and that's all.

--
Pat




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