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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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

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