Future owners/ACL choices

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Feb 28 03:39:56 UTC 2007


Kevin Fenzi (kevin at tummy.com) said: 
> The downside here, as Michael mentioned is that users will then file
> bugs and it will go to the orphan alias and be ignored, or if we remove
> the bugzilla component entirely, they won't even be able to file a bug
> at all. No one will be watching the package for security issues most
> likely either. ;( 

I don't think we ever want to remove the bugzilla component. (Aside from
the fact that bugzilla's design makes that near impossible.)

> create a 'fedora-orphans' package. When things are orphaned, that
> package gets added to it: 
> Provides: oldpackagename = $provEVR 
> Obsoletes: oldpackagename < $obsEVR
> 
> If the package is unorphaned, just bump release and it's back in
> business. I do suspect this will make some mad users if they use other
> repos or locally built packages however. 

Hm. I think the effect on locally-built packages is too much for this.

Bill




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