[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Tue Nov 30 00:52:11 CET 2010

Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 à 23:20 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, andre999 wrote:
+> 
+> > The fact that Mandriva didn't control what went into main is a large part 
+> > of their problem.
+> 
+> Mandriva controled what went into main.
+
+Not really, or not much. 
+( or at least, it was not apparent and public for outsiders ).
+
+Things got in main because something required it for BuildRequires. The
+only exception were when someone decide to move it ( subversion, nginx,
+django, catalyst ( because someone said "web 2.0 is something we should
+support" )) and that no one told "this should be reverted". 
+
+In practice, the divide was done several years ago, and the rest just
+got there for mechanical reasons. The only case of a refused package to
+go to main was network-manager, refused by fcrozat. And this caused lots
+of issue for building kde network-manager extension, and rendered the
+package less useful for kde users. Some people didn't like this, and the
+decision will likely change soon.
+
+And some pretty big packages ended in main ( like the whole java stack )
+when no one in mandriva could maintain it ( as the gcj bug I gave
+showed ). 
+
+So if Mandriva controlled what went into main, no one gave me directives
+when I received the privileges to run rpmctl ( ie to move package to
+main ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+