Bad-mouthing and hostility

Paul Frields stickster at gmail.com
Sat Mar 13 06:03:27 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- "Darren VanBuren" <onekopaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> These emails are quite discouraging on packaging my software, which
>> fits into this category of unpopular software. I don't think the
>> intention is to discourage packagers, especially new packagers. I
>> would hope not at least.
>
> Unless I've completely misunderstood the discussion, these policies are intended to apply only to *updates*, and therefore will not interfere with:
>
> a) creating a new package, or
> b) pushing new builds of a package to Rawhide*
>
> Can someone please correct me if I'm wrong about this?
>
> -w
>
> *Unless the build is obviously broken, e.g. causes file conflicts / breaks deps / etc.

You're right on both counts.

Paul


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