Fedora Insight weekly Meeting

Fri May 21 14:06:36 UTC 2010

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:36:11AM +0545, Drak wrote:
>    Off-topic maybe: What is the policy to using vendor fixes that have not
>    yet been released?
>    Drak

Good question, Drak.  I think it's acceptable for us to include
patches in a RPM that are backported fixes expected to be in the next
upstream release.  This happens frequently in the kernel, for example,
especially where Fedora contributors are providing said patches.  The
goal is always to reduce those fixes/patches to zero, or as close to
zero as possible.

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