Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <[email protected]> said: > On Mon, 2026-01-19 at 17:25 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I'm not a huge fan of Fedora projects that maintain lots of > > non-upstream patches, that are effectively forks without admitting to > > being a fork. Having at least an alternate upstream repo makes patch > > management easier. > > Can't you use src-git with Fedora packages? > > Sometimes downstream patches are necessary, I do not see that as a > problem, and if it is in the fedora repos at least it is clear this is > a Fedora specific down-patching and not an upstream fork.
Making it Fedora-specific also discourages other distros from cooperating on the same semi-fork. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
