Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> It's also completely possible that freeciv may not be a package we can ship.
>
> Not have at all in RPM form on the mirrors and in the repo list you
> mean?  That's a pretty harsh solution.  There's degrees here.  I could
> imagine for example that for some consumers of Fedora, being able to
> automatically strip out the controversial packages when
> redistributing, and have yum be able to skip listing
> -flags/controversial packages would be enough for them.  That seems to
> be some of the logic behind the current flags policy, though please
> correct me if I'm wrong.


We'd need:
1. some kind of plugin to handle it
2. some sort of provides tag in the rpm

that's a lot of crap to do in lieu of just not shipping the pkg.


>> If someone packaged a "free taiwan" game where you protested the PRC and
>> wheeled and dealed to get various world gov'ts to officially recognize
>> taiwan (an amusing game premise, actually) I think we'd probably have to not
>> ship it. Just as if someone packaged a game adaptation of "springtime for
>> hitler and germany." (from the producers musical/movie for anyone who
>> doesn't get the reference) we'd probably not ship it.
>
> Well, luckily for us the vast majority of these kinds of things are
> Flash games on the web now, so they're not our problem.

yet.

-sv