[Mageia-dev] On importing /soft

Wed Jan 19 22:43:55 CET 2011

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 21:33, Maarten Vanraes
+<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 21:32:13 schreef Pascal Terjan:
+>> http://svn.mageia.org/soft-cleaning/status.html#monitor-edid
+>> says "- README: Some reference to the Mandriva mailing list and
+>> bugzilla will need to be changed to Mageia ones"
+>>
+>> Do we really want to?
+>> What is the point?
+>> I think we can package this tool as-is, as a tool provided by Mandriva
+>> like if we were packaging a non distro specific tool developed by
+>> RedHat or Debian or anyone and let people report their bugs upstream
+>> if the README says so.
+>>
+>> If someday it becomes unmaintained or for any other reason, we can
+>> fork it, but currently I think of it as an external tool and see no
+>> reason in importing it into our svn
+>>
+>> I did not read the full list but I guess there are other standalone
+>> tools that we don't need to fork into our svn.
+>>
+>> Opinions?
+>
+> i agree,
+>
+> about spec-helper ... similar thing? or not?
+
+Not sure, I think it's independent from the distro (as the scripts
+don't handle the policy themselves, it's done by rpm config) but some
+rpm guru would know more :)
+