On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:33:32 +0530
"Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone guide me to some pointers on the general policy wrt package
branching when it comes to OLPC specific branches (eg: OLPC-2, OLPC-3)
?
I have a (pretty high priority) bug at
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7474, and fixing it requires patching
quite a few X related packages most of which are directly pulled in
from F-9. Do you think it is a good idea to create separate OLPC-3
branches for these packages, or do you think I should submit my
patches to the maintainers, and wait for them to update their F-9
packages ?
You'll have to talk to the Fedora maintainers to find out if, and how
quickly they might be willing to accept your patches. Do the patches
fix general bugs, or are the OLPC specific? Are the patches likely to
be accepted by the upstream projects? Are the patches relatively
'safe' (like small, well-understood bug fixes)? If the answer to all
three is 'yes', then there might be a good chance of getting the
patches in F-9. If not, you might have to go ahead and fork the
packages, but I'd recommend working with the maintainer and upstream to
get your patches accepted so you don't have to keep the packages forked
indefinitely.
-RN
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