[Fedora-packaging] [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Rex Dieter]

On 04/14/2012 02:32 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On Thursday, April 12, 2012 04:57:29 PM Tom Callaway wrote:
>> A bundling exception for boost within Passenger was granted, due to the
>> intrusive nature of the forked changes, the efforts of the maintainer to
>> merge as many of them as possible into the upstream boost source tree,
>> and the visible efforts of the upstream to keep the bundled copy of
>> boost in sync with the current boost releases.
>>
>> The package must also include a Requires: bundled(boost) = $VERSION
>> where $VERSION is the boost version being bundled.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_grant
>> ed_exceptions
>>
>
> While I appreciate the work Brett Lentz has been putting in upstream, why does
> this package have to be taken away from me?
>
> I'm already facing a "thanks for your work but no thanks"[1].
>
> I respectfully request Uncle Shadowman *not* be forcefully made the owner of
> the package, and the reporter of the review request be granted ownership.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696#c114

No need for this to be mutually exclusive, unless one (or both) of you 
are averse to being comaintainers?

-- rex