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
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