Em Quarta-feira 19 Maio 2010, às 19:08:05, Arjan van de Ven escreveu:
> > Does it mean that an OSV can merge its own patches on top of the source
> > packages from the reference MeeGo repository?
> > 
> > For example, Mandriva as a distribution editor is interested in
> > maintaining a common set of source rpm packages for both its classical
> > "Mandriva Linux" distribution and its MeeGo-based distribution, to
> > factorize maintenance.
> > 
> > Can we be called MeeGo-compliant as long as userspace is ABI compliant,
> > even if we have our own patches in kernel/udev/qt/dbus/...?
> 
> you should be able to add your own patches on top of the meego packages,
> provided that these patches don't break the application ABI (of course);
> common sense applies wrt this...

I don't know if keeping your full source tree in Subversion, with your own RPM 
spec files counts as "adding patches to MeeGo" though.

Maybe distros that are binary-compatible with MeeGo but aren't building on top 
of MeeGo need a separate sticker. This could include the .deb-based distros.

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