FOSDEM'10: distributions and downstream-upstream collaboration [LWN.net]

FOSDEM'10: distributions and downstream-upstream collaboration

Posted Feb 18, 2010 23:35 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
Parent article: FOSDEM'10: distributions and downstream-upstream collaboration

>Ubuntu users that want to file a bug, have the choice between three options. They can file a bug upstream, where they might get flamed; they can file a bug in Debian, where they are very likely to get flamed; or they can file a bug in Ubuntu's Launchpad, where there are very likely to get ignored.

Upstream reaction is not just flames.

(a) the D/U shipped version is numerically outside of the support scope (including, but not limited to, the linux kernel)

(b) the shipped version is considered too patch-ed-y

>Fedora starts them as make %{?_smp_mflags}, while openSUSE uses make %{?jobs:-j%jobs}. And so on.

Use of %jobs is deprecated http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Guidelines as it can carry less tuning knobs than %_smp_mflags.

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