when DEP-3 compliant patches in Fedora?

Björn Persson Bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Fri Aug 28 12:32:55 UTC 2015


Marcin Juszkiewicz <mjuszkiewicz at redhat.com> wrote:
> Are there any plans on adding/enforcing such requirements at least for new
> patches? 
> 
> Maintainers are not the only persons who work on their packages. Sometimes some
> random developers go though random packages for several reasons (fixing ftbfs on
> secondary architectures, mass rebuilds etc). There is also "bus factor" which
> can wipe maintainer from existence or people just orphan own packages. 
> 
> Why we have to check patch after patch for their reason or upstream status?

Have you read the existent policy on this?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Patch_Guidelines

Björn Persson
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