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