Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Martin Marques martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Tue Apr 10 12:10:20 UTC 2007


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>> No-one is answering the question.  Forget the OpenOffice fixation.  The
>> question is 'How do we know which of Fedora's packages have been altered in
>> this way?'  OpenOffice would be one, but there are others.  Totem comes to
>> mind, and I'd guess that there are lots more.  As Les remarked, it could be
>> indicated in the package name.
>
> The answer is, you don't know unless the maintainer has noted the "local"
> changes made.

Then Fedora should enforce there package maintainers to add the 
appropriate information about stripped code.

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