On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:58:55 Florent Monnier wrote: > I have also noticed that several Mageia packagers don't do any proper > attribution to the original authors of the spec files when importing. Is it > considered optional ?
In my case, I am mostly importing my own packages from Mageia, or entirely new packages ... Maybe you could provide examples. > because when I was a Mandriva packager, when I was > importing Fedora spec files and debian patches I have been asked by them to > make this proper attribution when importing. Why is it considered optional > when it comes from Mandriva ? Because many maintainers here maintained packages at Mandriva, and they would effectively attribute the package to themself? Regards, Buchan
