Dropping Base X group? [Was: Re: KDE logout options with F8]

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Mon Nov 5 13:08:36 UTC 2007


> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:26:36 +0100, Patrice Dumas scripst:
>> Because I think that being upstream and the primary maintainer of a
>> package in fedora (or any distro) is not a very good idea. If there are
>> conflict of interest between upstream and the distro (think about name
>> space, install paths, quality), I think that having a maintainer who is
>> not the primary upstream maintainer is a good thing. Having upstream
>> co-maintain, or even do the packaging work is a good idea, but I think
>> that upstream should not have the last saying for the package.
>
> Well, I would be bothered with stuff like this for some huge packages
> (OOo), but I don't think (with all due respect to your utility) one
> reasonable guy should IMHO be able to keep two hats on his head. And you
> wouldn't be the first one (by far).

I maintain two (I think) packages for which I am upstream.  I suspect I
wasn't the first, either.

> Matěj
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