Package Maintainers Flags policy

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Tue May 19 21:03:37 UTC 2009


On 05/19/2009 01:37 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ewan Mac Mahon (ewan at macmahon.me.uk) said:
>> This sort of decision is always going to be a balance; on the one hand
>> there are clearly real costs to Fedora in having a blanket ban on flags,
>> and on the other we have (according to spot[1]) "no specific legal issue
>> at this time".
>
> They specifically stated that it may/will prevent Fedora from being
> available or acceptable in some countries. That's not insignificant.
>
The current proposal doesn't fix this.

Flags are not banned by the current policy.  Fedora can carry them:

1) in a separate flags subpackage as long as the main package does not 
require it.
2) if the flag is "technically or substantively essential to the package".

-Toshio




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