Re: contributing a software through bugzilla

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:19 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:01:07AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > As I see it, community contributed Fedora is only able to handle
> > "trivial, mass-market" packages. I'd presume that most "non-trivial
> > packages", which currently are part of Core and 100% under RH control
> > (E.g. GCC, kernel, glibc, perl ...) would have never made it into FE.
> 
> That's not so obvious since, although they are very complicated packages 
> they are also very widely used.
Are you seriously telling me you would accept a package which has 30 or
more patches applied? 

You would tell the maintainer to tell upstream to fix them.

Ralf