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

[Brett Lentz]

On 14/04/12 20:32 +0100, 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 apologize if that's how it sounded. That wasn't my intended meaning. The issue was that
you just started dropping your updated specs into the bug report without any
comment and seemingly prior to understanding the scope of the exception
that was granted. In addition, your last update to the bug was on 2010-11-21. As far as I could
tell, you had abandoned this review request.

>I respectfully request Uncle Shadowman *not* be forcefully made the owner of
>the package, and the reporter of the review request be granted ownership.
>

As we've discussed elsewhere, I see no reason why we can't share ownership of
the package. We've both contributed quite a bit to making the package
acceptable for Fedora, and there's plenty of room for both of us to continue
maintaining it.

>Kind regards,
>
>Jeroen van Meeuwen
>
>[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696#c114
>
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---Brett.
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