Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu May 15 06:52:47 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
Why, for example, couldn't the changes you say
> fedora needs as a dependency for openoffice be included in the jpackage
> repository for that fedora release and maintained as exact copies?
You are again ignoring reasons already explained. Jpackage specializes
in Java packages and doesn't include all the packages Fedora does and
vice versa. So the dependencies cannot be the same. Even it does there
are differences in release cycles, patches, packaging and licensing
policy among other reasons. It is pretty difficult to have two variants
of a software with different maintainers in two different repositories
perfectly in sync all the time even with the best efforts.
Rahul
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