On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)bobich.net> wrote:
I have a question on policies of how and whether Fedora-ARM patches
are
rolled back into rawhide. The reason I ask is because I see overlap
between the required ARM specific patches between F11 and F12. What is
the policy for rolling these patches back into upstream and (more
importantly in case upstream is slow/reluctant to accept them) rawhide?
In a lot of cases the people dealing with the issues have the ability
to commit the fixes themselves so as to be able to push them directly
upstream where necessary.
Also, what is the policy on new packages? Specifically, I found
myself
in need of openssl098k compatibility package (need to run some binaries
from F11). This is pretty trivial to come up with (change the package
name from openssl-0.9.8k to openssl098k-0.9.8k in the spec file and
re-tar the openssl tar ball to extract to openssl098k-0.9.8k directory
instead of openssl-0.9.8k directory), but what I wanted to ask if
whether there is some kind of a policy for including things like this in
the main distro. It is likely that this would be useful to other people
who are less willing/able to roll their own packages.
The policy on new packages is that they have to be in upstream Fedora.
Peter