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* Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> schrieb: |
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> There should be useful stuff here: |
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> http://video.fosdem.org/2010/devrooms/distributions/How_to_be_a_good_upstream.ogv |
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#1 he says nothing about that - if upstream has a VCS (and properly |
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uses it ;-o) - the distros should use it, so eg. set their branches |
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ontop the upstream's release tags instead of manually maintaining |
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patches against tarballs ... |
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#2 One point i don't agree is the "dont add -Werror" rule. actually, |
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i'm thinking of making -Wall and -Werror mandatory. if some |
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package doenst build fine, it's simply broken. period. |
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#3 When he's talking about "disabling dependencies", he most likely |
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has the totally wrong concept in mind (as probably most Gentoo |
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folks ;-p): you naturally dont want to enable/disable dependencies, |
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but features (which then imply certain dependencies). Once you |
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use terms like "zlib support", you're already on the wrong path. |
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#4 The discussion about "how to be a good downstream" (started by |
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the ffmpeg guy) is quite interesting ... that's exactly the |
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kind of situations what the OSS-QM (see my recent posts) is for. |
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(and all goes sooo easy w/ tools like git ;-p) |
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