moto4lin, I give up.

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 18:43:46 UTC 2007


Andrew Haley wrote:

>  > Please don't oversimplify the issue. Just because upstream refuses, for
>  > whatever reason, to come up with a release doesn't mean packagers should
>  > refuse to package up a copy from VCS, particularly if it's been made
>  > reproducible.
> 
> I dunno.  That sounds like a very good reason to me.  Otherwise Fedora
> would have to maintain a fork, which really isn't a good plan.  It
> isn't the job of a Fedora packager to maintain a fork.
> 
> If it's really so important to get this fixed, it needs to be fixed
> across all distros.  If there hasn't been a release for three years,
> the package needs to be orphaned or someone who cares needs to start
> maintaining a fork that can become the new upstream.

Why would upstream's existing sourceforge svn trunk be considered a new 
fork?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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