Re: FESCo Meeting Logs 2006-12-21

[Callum Lerwick <seg haxxed com>]

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 13:32 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:04:46PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > 
> > > * clement issue: Package has not been updated yet.  We'll step in and
> > >fix it after the meeting.
> > >  * rdieter to take a "No yum repo files in packages" rule to the
> > >Packaging Committee.
> > 
> > No repository files of any package manager including Yum. Apt and Smart 
> > would be a better rule.
> 
> BTW there are exactly two other packages other than fedora-release
> which legitimately carry repo information: fedora-package-config-{smart,apt}.
> 
> Of course the repos in there are exactly the same as in the yum repos,
> just translated in their syntax (as much as applies to these
> depsolvers at least).
> 
> Perhaps one day all repo config will make it in one fedora-repo-config
> package.

Perhaps the rule should simply be something along the lines of "No
non-Fedora Project repos may be packaged", as that's the real issue.