[IAEP] Packaging eToys (was Sugar on Edubuntu)

Greg Dekoenigsberg gdk at redhat.com
Sat Nov 8 10:44:26 EST 2008


On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Gavin Romig-Koch wrote:

> I wasn't aware of Debian's policy requirement to "handle it on their 
> own". Greg, does Fedora have a similar policy?  I am perfectly capable 
> of finding and fixing issues if necessary, but I would not want to try 
> to second guess the developers of these particular packages about the 
> suitablity of a particular patch.

You'll have to ask FESCO about current policy -- or Spot could probably 
tell you -- but I think that, in general, Fedora prefers to stick to 
upstream as closely as possible, and carry patches as infrequently as 
possible.

--g


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