-upstart subpackage vs tranditional initscripts

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Jun 4 16:52:51 UTC 2010


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> I think that this would be a huge mistake. Enrico is a very talented
> packagers he generally is ahead of his time. I was myself sometimes
> annoyed by the peculiarities of his packages, but he always comply to
> guidelines.

No he doesn't. For example, SVN revision tags in Version (as opposed to 
Release) are not compliant to our naming and versioning guidelines.

> I think that pushing talented packagers that don't think exactly like
> the median fedora packager and show some originality is not healthy.

What you call "originality", I call "inconsistency". It's bad for our 
project.

        Kevin Kofler




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