Unison in Fedora

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu May 7 11:47:34 UTC 2015


On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:17:10AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I think Fedora should have a single "unison" source package, and it
> should contain the multiple upstream branch sources and build
> different binary subpackages.  The binary subpackages would have the
> same names as now (unison227 etc), making this a compatible update for
> existing Fedora Unison users.
> 
> This way I only need to submit a single new package review, we can
> delete the unison2xx source packages, and there'll be a single place
> for unison in Fedora for ever more.

This seems like a sane plan to me, given the circumstances. (It's
really too bad that newer versions don't _themselves_ have a compat
mode, but oh well.) I suppose this would need a special exception from
FPC.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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