Packager = Programmer?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/04/2009 10:18 PM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:

> I'd love to learn how autotools, setuptools, and other equivalents for
> other languages work. Not necessarily because I want to build a
> project using those, but because I sometimes have a hard time figuring
> out how to patch a Makefile in one of my packages, why I should patch
> a .in or .am file,...
> 
> Actually, those would be great ideas for Fedora Classrooms I guess.

Yes, that would be great. People who are experts in such things (I know
we have a good number of those) should step up and participate in the
Fedora Classroom sessions or help document it in a way relevant to
package maintainers.

Rahul