On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:17:28PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949328 >> 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869540 > > Often, people maintain a package because it's required for a certain use > case they have not necessarily for particular love for that package. That's > not the idea situation, but it's better than not having the package at all, > and crucially, it means the actual use case that someone cares about is > covered.
Really? There's packages that have been built once and never updated that have CVEs and bugs that the "maintainer" never deals with. The vast majority of ARM build "issues" I've dealt with aren't ARM issues at all. They're maintainers not fixing problems or updating their own packages and when ever I fix a problem with a package with ARM problems I check the bugs and build problems against mainline and in the vast majority of cases the problems on ARM are actually problems on x86. > I'm sure Peter would be happy to have a co-maintainer for the syslinux > package. I'd volunteer, but I'm actually _also_ only interested in a small > subset of functionality and am not able to address the bigger picture > either. But if someone would show up and really want to do it justice, > *awesome*. So in a lot of cases ARM is only interested in a small subset of cases but I still fix other issues. Other maintainers pick up packages because they're only interested in a subset. I'll use llvm as an example here because ajax has openly said he's only interested in a subset and he openly quoted it earlier in the thread. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
