On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:45:47AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 12/08/2017 10:40 AM, Steve Dickson wrote: > >You are telling me there hundreds of people that have complete > >control over all the packages in fedora with no boundaries??? > >They can do anything they what??? Wow... > > Not really. There are a handful of packages that are protected. I > tried to push a grub2 update for a change that maintainers ignored > for years. I couldn't create updates in Bodhi and my rawhide build, > although successful, was not properly signed for release to the > repos.
That's true. I made a stab [1] at having those "special" packages documented in the spec file a while back, so that proven packagers would know that certain packages should not be touched, but it never went anywhere (FPC only clarified the guideline that dist-git is the canonical source of the spec file). [1] https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/613 Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
