question regarding Fedora packaging

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Dim 21 août 2011 13:24, Olivier Sallou a écrit :

> What is the usual behavior in this case ? Should I check with maintainer if
> package can be "moved" to Fedora ? (and do it myself if he does not wish to do
> so)

If done cleanly importing packages from JPackage to Fedora is fine and will be
welcome from everyone, JPackage maintainer included.

The mistake to avoid is to fork the package and apply Fedora changes blindly 
without discussing them with the original packagers, as you may introduce bugs
that will be reported JPackage side and make users and JPackage people very
angry at you - the first ones because you'll break all the mised
JPackage+Fedora installs that exist in the field as soon as they get your
package as update, the second ones because they'll get problem report through
no fault of theirs and that they can't fix since the problem will be in your
package.

The best option is to arrange to become a kind of co-maintainer JPackage-side.
This way you'll be able to push relevant information from one project to the
other when necessary. This is how rpmfusion packagers synchronize with Fedora
packages they depend heavily on.

Even though Jpackage is a much smaller project than Fedora it includes a lot
more Java packages so it's coverage of Java packages interactions will tend to
be better than the Fedora one.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot