Re: RPM submission procedure

[Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 arcor de>]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:22:20 +0100, Ronny Buchmann wrote:

> > >> No, when a package is in a public repository it is too late. People will
> > >> begin to use this repository as default one since it has lots of cool
> > >> packages. Since packages are already published, bugreports will have a
> > >> low priority for the packagers and bugs stay forever (rawhide is a good
> > >> example).
> > >
> > > I don't think this is a problem. When rawhide bugs are not maintained
> > > this mostly means they are gone
> >
> > A basic package like 'procps' is broken for nearly two months already...
>
> in Extras you could fix it yourself and your (newer) package would eventually 
> be voted to stable

No. Don't expect Extras to be permitted to upgrade Core. There won't
be competition between Extras and Core. Extras are really just add-ons.

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