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Wasted time for driver maintainers

Posted Apr 21, 2004 17:53 UTC (Wed) by QuisUtDeus (guest, #14854)
In reply to: Wasted time for driver maintainers by proski
Parent article: Linux Creator Calls Backporting 'Good Thing' (InternetNews.com)

Documenting the abnormal assumptions of a back-port would be polite: "This backport requires this other patch," etc.

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Documented in the src.rpm

Posted Apr 21, 2004 18:33 UTC (Wed) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link]

... the documentation for Red Hat vendor changes is the .spec file in the SRPM.

I'm not going to comment in either way on the "good" vs. "bad" question because I see it as a set of trade-offs.

JimD