On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:06:38PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> It is a random upstream project but one developed within
Fedora and
>> Fedora can and should tell them not to do so. Why shouldn't we? Again
>> they don't need or deserve special exceptions. Treat them like any other
>> upstream project. That is all I ask.
>
> No. That is part of the problem with your proposal. You have targetted RH
> or Fedora packages that do this. If some other package only distributes via
> SRPM (or .deb, or ebuild), they aren't required to comply. Why force these
> RH/Fedora packages to do something that we don't force other packages to?
>
The proposal doesn't target Fedora or RH. The exception targets Fedora
or Red Hat. This removes that exception.
It appears I have misread the proposal as written. I've also generally made
an ass out of myself here. I withdraw my objection.
josh