New package from one source

Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) forum at ru.bir.ru
Tue Jan 20 08:11:11 UTC 2009


Casey Dahlin пишет:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) (forum at ru.bir.ru) said:  
>>> As was mentioned in there discussion I want package it and push to  
>>> Fedora (it is open source and maintained). So, main question - is it  
>>> normal situation have second package (I intend call it like 
>>> apache-itk)  with one source, which used in other rpm (apache) in 
>>> repository? Is  really there any legal issues or etc.?
>>>     
>>
>> I don't think shipping separate rebuilds of core system daemons that
>> consist of adding 66k of non-upstream patch is a good idea.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>   
> seconded. If it isn't good enough for upstream we don't want it.
Hmm. May you more explain why??
We have many packages with completely dead upstream. I'm not sure, but 
may be it is even not be presented apache upstream.




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