Mass changes to packaging

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:23:41PM -0400, Lukas Nykryn wrote:
>> Sorry for this mess. After a discussion, we have decided, that the
>> best way would be to create bugs for every packages and then helping
>> creating patches for specfiles.
>
> Just to be clear, I had no problem at all with the bugs being filed,
> nor with the changes (which seem very sensible).  I just pointed out
> it would be better if you actually fixed the packages, or at least
> offered to do that for packagers.
>
>> We want to give maintainers possibility to fix this on their own and
>> because we want this change in all packages, creating bug seemed as
>> a better option then spamming devel-list.
>
> So my suggested wording for the bug report would be to give the
> packager a choice: either they do nothing now and can fix the package
> themselves, or they indicate that they want you to fix the package.

I am pleased that I got a bug report and not an involuntary patch, as
it gives me a chance to take care of special cases and schedule things
appropriately.  I do agree, however, that offering to patch affected
packages would also be a good gesture and a great way to help move the
changes along.