Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 8, 2023 15:33 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks by paulj
Parent article: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

I do mean the second paragraph; yes, there are changes that distros make that are distro-specific - no upstream wants a patch that links to Fedora-specific documentation, for example - but having the work needed to make a given piece of software part of a maintainable system living in N different distro patchsets along with distro-specific changes is duplication.

And that duplication becomes waste when you get two people who would happily improve each other's implementations of a change instead working from scratch because neither of them has submitted their version to a shared location, and thus they don't know that there's a collaboration possible.

Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 10, 2023 6:14 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

One could instead upstream a patch to add a build config option to link to distro docs. Or upstream the docs too and link to that instead.