[Fedora-packaging] Re: Charter of Fedora Packaging Group
Axel Thimm schrieb:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:08:36AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> For those of you that are not on fedora-advisory-board find attached a
> discussion with Michael Schwendt on that list that IMHO falls in the
> area of the Packaging Committee. Could you guys please handle that? tia!
> But I don't think there is anything to do for FESCo *before* there are
> general packaging rules in the guidelines that clarify when Conflicts
> are allowed/acceptable and when not (for both Core and Extras).
I think this is wrong (not the contents, but the responsibilities).
There is no real charter or manifesto of this group and there are
often topics brought up that are questionable on whether this group
should be able to decide on it. But I think the implied work is on
"how, not why/what" to package. E.g. methology vs policies.
Sure, policies like "Extras does not replace packages from Core" or
"Extras packages don't conflict with Core" are FESCo business. But is a
Conflicts: kernel < 2.6.16
a conflict with Core or is that an acceptable way in Core and Extras to
say "if you have a kernel it needs to be at least 2.6.16"? That's
clearly packaging afaics.
CU
thl