[Fedora-packaging] bundling and real-world software today

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 09:43:42PM +0200, Germano Massullo wrote:
> [21:22] <Germano> I am sure somebody will say: "uh can't they just
> submit their Rawspeed changes to upstream and then wait for an upstream
> version being released and use it?"
> [21:23] <houz> yes, we could. and stop releasing every 2 months or so

This seems very typical of a lot of good, popular open source software
these days, and it also seems like a reasonable argument. Unlike the
worst scenarios, here at least both versions are actively updated. I
think we need to figure out how to be more flexible here (both in this
case and in general).


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader