[Fedora-packaging] Re: Attention kernel module project packagers!

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:48:05PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>  On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:34 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>  > An argument against adopting kmdls presented by Thorsten Leemhuis is
>  > that
>  > 
>  > * it's too late now to fix it, we should live on with kmod bugs for
>  >   RHEL5's life-cycle (ending 2012 ...)
>  > 
>  > * too many packages for kmod are written (but actually there is only one
>  >   in Fedora Extras 5, the rest is pending or in other repos and if
>  >   other repos count, then ATrpms has several dozens of kmdls :)
>  
>  I think this argument is invalid. We should ban _all_ module packages
>  from Core and Extras anyway. 
That's a valid viewpoint. Assuming Fedora Core/Extras indeed bans all
external kernel module packages, does it have the authority/interest
to maintain a kernel module packaging guide? If not who should?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net