[CentOS-devel] Am I qualified to help?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 19:44:12 UTC 2011
On 1/8/11 1:30 PM, Hubert Bahr wrote:
>
>>> Comment #5 from Rich clears it up quite nicely from our ( the CentOS )
>>> side of things, the upstream package was built with that dep, so we
>>> would need to as well. I havent looked at the build logs to see if there
>>>
> I interpret this statement to say, "if the upstream binary package is
> buggy, CentOS must provide the same bugs."
> Personally I was hoping this would not be the case.
Bug-for-bug compatibility sort-of makes sense as a goal for the shipped
binaries. I'm not sure it does for things that relate to a build system that is
neither public nor completely identical to upstream.
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Les Mikesell
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