Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

  Why, for example, couldn't the changes you say
> fedora needs as a dependency for openoffice be included in the jpackage 
> repository for that fedora release and maintained as exact copies?

You are again ignoring reasons already explained. Jpackage specializes 
in Java packages and doesn't include all the packages Fedora does and 
vice versa. So the dependencies cannot be the same. Even it does there 
are differences in release cycles, patches, packaging and licensing 
policy among other reasons. It is pretty difficult to have two variants 
of a software with different maintainers in two different repositories 
perfectly in sync all the time even with the best efforts.

Rahul