who is Petr Pisar from redhat ?

[Chen Lei]

2010/7/2 Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 11:40:11AM +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote:
>> Dne 2.7.2010 11:34, Michael Schwendt napsal(a):
>> > Of course there is. There ought to be prior communication about such plans
>> > to upgrade a package. The primary package maintainer may have good reasons
>> > for not upgrading the package. Just ask!
>>
>> The primary package maintainer (see the other thread about "owning" a
>> package) who has a package 8 months in FTBFS doesn't have much rights in
>> my thinking.
>
> I think that this is very wrong. I don't know the specifics of this package
> either, but I remember that for one of my packages, I had to hold of
> correcting a FTBS because it meant upgrading, and I coudn't do that
> because of some incompatibilities.
>
> Bottom line is -- unless it changed -- in the spirit of provenpackager
> policies for non urgent things like FTBS, provenpackagers should do
> as little as possible, contact packagers before doing anything, do change
> in cvs but let time for the packager to build or revert.
>
> --
> Pat
> --

However, FTBFS in rawhide is not allowed, your package will be
orphaned/cleaned if it has a  FTBFS bug for two release cycles.

Chen Lei