Backporting packages to older distros

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:19 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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?
Well, the RH bugzilla maintainers would have to answer this.

All I can say, as a user, the first problem you'd encounter is 
"Which 'product' does the package belong to, "Fedora Core" or
"Fedora Extras"? I don't know if bugzilla allows the same package to be
member of the same 'product'.

Presuming this works, to whom would bugs be assigned and who is supposed
to fix them? A normal FE maintainer can't fix bugs in FC, the question
here is, whether the FC maintainer is legitimated to alter files in FE.

>  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?
The RH bugzilla maintainer would have to answer this.

Ralf