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FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributionsFOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributionsPosted Feb 10, 2011 8:41 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)Parent article: FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions
What about a single well known location for go-oo-style (thought preferably much lighter weight) patches against difficult upstreams? Then there could be a single maintainer or maintainer team and that could be packaged as-is.
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FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions Posted Feb 10, 2011 8:45 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
For that matter the patch sets could include packaging. From personal experience it is not hard to maintain a single set of packaging that works for a range of Debian and Ubuntu distributions and another single set which works for a range of Redhats, Fedoras, Mandrivas and SUSEs.
FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions Posted Feb 14, 2011 18:08 UTC (Mon) by kreutzm (guest, #4700) [Link]
As a maintainer of packages where upstream is dead or unrepsonsive it is just sad to see (in my case) Debian only patches like (localized) man pages or improved i18n. And cooperation should be easy - I tried both cooperation for certain low level software (alpha bootloader) and localized man pages. But the mentioned contacts did not respond (maybe the where wrong, but I don't have the ressources to research that).
FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions Posted Feb 15, 2011 9:19 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] If upstream is no longer interested in a package, would it not make sense for distribution maintainers to get together and fork the package in question to create a new common quasi-upstream?
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