Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Jul 12 12:21:36 UTC 2006


Le Mer 12 juillet 2006 14:12, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 08:02, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> They (and the users) need to track when a package was forked from JPP.
>> It's a two-level upstream :
>>
>> 1. first upstream : source code
>> 2. second upstream : initial rpm packaging at JPP, with a lot of grunt
>> work in the spec files
>> 3. fedora packaging : adaptations on 2.
>
> Does that mean that when we adopt a package from SuSE we should put the
> suse release information in the dist tag too?

You didn't read me, it's not an "adopting" process, it's a continuous
back-and forth. The Fedora changes are periodically rebased on JPP
releases, and non distro-specific bits are pushed from Fedora to JPP

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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