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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:44:52
Message-Id: 20100626193915.GD4789@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages by "Petteri Räty"
1 * Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> schrieb:
2
3 > There should be useful stuff here:
4 > http://video.fosdem.org/2010/devrooms/distributions/How_to_be_a_good_upstream.ogv
5
6 #1 he says nothing about that - if upstream has a VCS (and properly
7 uses it ;-o) - the distros should use it, so eg. set their branches
8 ontop the upstream's release tags instead of manually maintaining
9 patches against tarballs ...
10
11 #2 One point i don't agree is the "dont add -Werror" rule. actually,
12 i'm thinking of making -Wall and -Werror mandatory. if some
13 package doenst build fine, it's simply broken. period.
14
15 #3 When he's talking about "disabling dependencies", he most likely
16 has the totally wrong concept in mind (as probably most Gentoo
17 folks ;-p): you naturally dont want to enable/disable dependencies,
18 but features (which then imply certain dependencies). Once you
19 use terms like "zlib support", you're already on the wrong path.
20
21 #4 The discussion about "how to be a good downstream" (started by
22 the ffmpeg guy) is quite interesting ... that's exactly the
23 kind of situations what the OSS-QM (see my recent posts) is for.
24 (and all goes sooo easy w/ tools like git ;-p)
25
26
27 cu
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30 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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32 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
33 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
34 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
35 http://patches.metux.de/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>