On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 00:04 +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On May 09, 11 23:00:01 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
People should not be allowed to throw their nitpicking issues that way at other people. They could use *their* own obs project to build the distro with *their* rules, and then fix the packages themselves.
Guess, that would be fine treatment for their personal issues, instead of annoying everybody else.
I take it, you are royally annoyed, and just want me in another universe.
Oh, no. :)
I just think the people who want such changes need to fix all failing packages themselves, before they add any fatal rules to the build service. Instead of just force-pushing the work out to all the package maintainers which might not even have touched a license tag for years. This way you never educate your packagers. License tags are only one issue to fix (and we're progressing with that thanks to licensedigger). We have
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 01:32:24 Kay Sievers wrote: packages that violate naming policies, we have more than 100 Factory packages violating our shared library policy and lot's of packages with dubious rpmlintrc. I could go on with that list, but as long as those packagers have maintainers, it's their responsibility to get their stuff fixed as long as they want it to be part of Factory, simply. While you're right that some policy changes can be communicated more openly, most of the policies I mentioned are in effect since ages. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Sascha Peilicke http://saschpe.wordpress.com