RPM submission procedure

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> 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.

Yep, Extras can never get into way of Core. Packages that replace things
in Core are allowed in Fedora Alternatives however.

	- Panu -