Package Maintainers Flags policy

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue May 19 21:08:12 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:59 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> 
> I have a question:
> 
> Suppose there is an application that I want to package that contains
> the Brazilian flag only and no other flags. Afaik, the Brazilian flag
> is not illegal in any country in the world. Do I still have to make a
> subpackage for this one flag?

Yes you would.  The only way to be "neutral" is to treat all flags the
same.  Any different treatment would amount to preferential treatment
which is exactly what we're trying to avoid.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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