[fedora-arm] New Packages and Policy Questions

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> I have a question on policies of how and whether Fedora-ARM patches are
> rolled back into rawhide. The reason I ask is because I see overlap
> between the required ARM specific patches between F11 and F12. What is
> the policy for rolling these patches back into upstream and (more
> importantly in case upstream is slow/reluctant to accept them) rawhide?

In a lot of cases the people dealing with the issues have the ability
to commit the fixes themselves so as to be able to push them directly
upstream where necessary.

> Also, what is the policy on new packages? Specifically, I found myself
> in need of openssl098k compatibility package (need to run some binaries
> from F11). This is pretty trivial to come up with (change the package
> name from openssl-0.9.8k to openssl098k-0.9.8k in the spec file and
> re-tar the openssl tar ball to extract to openssl098k-0.9.8k directory
> instead of openssl-0.9.8k directory), but what I wanted to ask if
> whether there is some kind of a policy for including things like this in
> the main distro. It is likely that this would be useful to other people
> who are less willing/able to roll their own packages.

The policy on new packages is that they have to be in upstream Fedora.

Peter