Public SPEC files please

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:20:42PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > How can 4 people 
> > > work together if only 1 person can make commits ?
> > 
> > With "poor man's CVS" because of lack of CVS. When four people work
> > together, everyone of them can take the most recent src.rpm and either
> > submit patches or submit a modified src.rpm. And the others review the
> > changes and approve the package (unless they are trusted).
> 
> Linux kernel works this way near enough.

Well, I didn't say it was impossible. And that question is actually a poor 
one, I admit. It's not really a problem that only one person can commit, 
the problem is that it is hard for the other three to follow development 
and you need much more communication to get things done.

But let me rephrase:

 + You're only interested in the SPEC file and a few patches and the 
   changes to that SPEC file. In the best case see all the changes that 
   happened since the latest release and by whom.

 + The SPEC files are inside Source packages that are located on someone's 
   webserver (that at this time is even no longer available). Different 
   packages are on different servers by different packagers.

 + The only way to know the existence of such a project/package is to find 
   it in bugzilla and look for the different URLs of these packages.

So it's rather hard to follow the development of a single package, let 
alone follow the different developments of many packages.

At least with the kernel you take 2 trees and compare those and ou see 
all changes. Here we're talking about at least 200 packages. (Or how many 
are there in total now ?)

Kind regards,
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