On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jeff Johnson n3npq@mac.com wrote:
On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Who in this case is the master? Where can we find the policy declaration, and the people responsible for it? Are they aware of the side effects?
When wearing my Fedora Tester hat, I often check the Guidelines : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines Joe, and his high-and-mighty-rawhideness, also seems to directly conflict with %{dist} tag use : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jeff Johnson n3npq@mac.com wrote:
The rawhide *.spec is targeted at rawhide, not everywhere, because of the branch structure in use by Fedora. That has nothing whatsoever to do with whether Fedora is "suicidal" or "RPM sux!", there's a perfectly obvious engineering explanation for why the RFE was declined.
Then the Fedora build structure is severely flawed. In other words, we "dogs" have dysfunctional "masters". Come on team - we should practice like we play, right? :-)
jerry