Backporting packages to older distros

[Paul Howarth]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:44 +0000, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> 
>>>I see that perl-String-CRC32 was added to rawhide yesterday;
> 
> 
>>>Obviously I won't need to introduce it on the devel branch but
>>>I'd like to have it on the FC-4 branch. What's the procedure for doing
>>>this? Introduce the package as normal, then request the FC-4 branch and
>>>removal of the devel branch on the Extras/CVSSync Needed page?
>>
>>Sounds right but with one limitation you have to keep FC-4 RPM
>>E:NVR less or equal than the one in Core in order to avoid upgrade problems.
> 
> Another limitation is bugzilla ownership.

Would that actually be a problem? Couldn't there be a different owner 
for the Extras package and the Core package - aren't they separate 
components as far as bugzilla is concerned?

Paul.