Re: gnokii-0.6.13-1.fc5.rf incompatible with Fedora Extras

Dag Wieers wrote:

> At least you could have said it was unfortunate that inconsistencies are
> introduced within Fedora Extras that break things outside Fedora Extras.

That's mostly a given, but I'd argue that the inconsistencies you cite can
(and do) come from any/all sides.  Collaboration discussions need to stay
out of the blame game, and focus on how better to work together.

"outside of Fedora Extras" meaning what exactly?  rhel?  3rd party repos?

If you meant rhel, then I can vouge that FESCo is working hard to expand
Extras into that space.  There's a huge demand for that.

> A good policy would have
> been to check what was available before starting from afresh and
> communicate with existing repositories.

FYI, the "check what was available" bit *is* part of Fedora's Packaging
Guidelines and is (should be!) done as part of the package review process.

Any other concrete suggestions?

> Fedora Extras attitude problems still remain.

Certainly everyone needs to put the attitude aside to facilitate positive
change.

-- Rex