Broken upgrade paths in F7
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue May 15 18:49:06 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 00:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > I suggested we wait a couple days. Ralf has not officially declared his
> > packages to be orphaned. I'm hoping he'll be amenable to perhaps
> > another maintainer submitting the tag request since he's taking a break
> > from Fedora.
>
> That's all well and good for this specific instance but I am talking
> more about a general policy. How are you going to handle instances where
> maintainers refuse to cooperate? Step in and workaround them or consider
> the packages orphaned and pull them off?
I have no energy to discuss some theoretical policy for a situation that
should hopefully not occur more than a few times. I'm not saying you're
wrong to address that, however. If you would like to have a discussion
on that, please start a new thread. It's not a discussion or policy
that will be finalized before F7 releases.
josh
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