Reason why non-commiters are not allowed to create buildroot overrides?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Mar 16 22:53:09 UTC 2015


David Howells wrote:

> Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
>> The reason why buildroot overrides can't be made by anyone is that the
>> maintainer might not want people to build packages against the new
>> version, if for example it breaks things.
> 
> Should the broken new version be made unavailable in that case then?

Technically, it's not generally available until the maintainer submits an 
update for it.

-- Rex



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