Owen Taylor wrote:
As for standard application RPMs, it's really going to be
something
we figure out over time. My vision is something like:
F27: packagers are *able* to create Flatpaks of their application.
They must also maintain standard RPMs.
F28: packagers (of graphical applications) are *encouraged* to create
Flatpaks of their applications along side standard RPM packaging.
They *may* drop the standard RPM packaging if there is good
reason to.
F29: packagers (of graphical applications) must create Flatpaks of
their applications if possible. They *may* keep standard RPM
packaging.
This sounds a lot like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics
to me, a common strategy used by construction companies to subvert
environmental rules, obviously frowned upon. You are trying to submit small
innocous-sounding changes in an attempt to sneak in your plan to completely
subvert Fedora while minimizing opposition.
I really hope that FESCo will evaluate the above complete plan when
considering your change proposal, not just the thin salami slice that you
submitted.
Kevin Kofler