FC2 initial schedule posted

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Dec 15 20:01:14 UTC 2003


Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:35:05PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > I think you're making a bad mistake.  By encouraging the upstream
> > developers to automate RPM submission, you would substantially increase
> > the freshness of the updates you get.
> 
> That's really not a major problem; when things just build from
> upstream, updating them isn't a problem.

I don't understand.  I though the point of accepting RPM submissions was so
that you don't have to do builds at all, but can push package construction
out to the upstream maintainers.

If that's not what you're after, why accept RPM submissions at all?
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>





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