5. If Fedora is a language for developers how am I supposed to develop
for other systems? And if I do this development why do I then have to
carry this patch for this one OS when if I did the development on
Ubuntu and put it in Universe I don't?
On 30 March 2017 at 12:10, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:00:40PM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen
wrote:
> I think the thing that the problems packagers are looking at is the
> following:
>
> 1) They are going to have 'non-upstream' patches for all their
> software.. which is just one more thing to keep up with every update.
> 2) Most of this software is not stuff they care about. It is branches
> on a tree for the only reason they packaged it up in the first place.
> So it is busy work from what they want.
> 3) This isn't the only rodeo they are putting this package in. So this
> patch set looks like a special snowflake patch they have to keep up
> with.
> 4) There is a difference between rules written down and rules in
> action. While the rule has been this should be done, the fact that so
> many packages have never done so and no one has pulled them for that..
> says the real rule is it is not needed. Making a written rule an
> action rule takes enforcement which always causes resistance.
Good summary, and I definitely understand *these* problems. Just not
the other one. :)
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