[Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johannbg at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 18:24:41 UTC 2015



On 09/11/2015 05:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 13:35 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>
>> As for which components, it's not about specific examples[1]. It's
>> about solving the question in a generic way. We have quite a lot of
>> software that isn't packaged for Fedora (either not started or
>> aborted
>> when the package review couldn't be passed) that has genuine value.
> I can certainly confirm that. I dug through quite a lot of review
> requests yesterday to look at how the rules have been applied in
> practice, and found several that have been abandoned because of
> bundling issues. I'll just link one example -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836810 - but it's trivial
> to find more.
>

The inclusion of what now 15k components in the distribution is a 
testimony of success of un-bundling against your testimony of ( few ) 
failures of bundling.

JBG


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