Terje, Today Terje Bless wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Oetiker) wrote: > > > if you feel so strongly about it, then just go ahead and merge the smokeping > > modules into the perl tree, [?]. This is opensource after all. [?] I have > > explained to you why I don't think this is a good aproach from where I > > stand. > > Heh. That's why I started out asking whether there was any chance I'd be able > to persuade you. :-) yes, I understand that, given you had been sucessful in it would make your life easier :-) cheers tobi > > The thing is, another part of Fedora's packaging policy is to stay as close as > possible to upstream. Ideally a package would apply no patches against > upstream source; and performing major surgery on modules is definitely not a > desired way to go about things. Second-guessing the upstream project is not a > game I particularly want to get into. > > By that consideration I'm going to start out submitting the package for review > in line with how you do things in the source distribution. I'm expecting > they'll bring up the issues I've mentioned in this thread, but then again I > may well be wrong and they'll consider it entirely unproblematic. > > > Thank you for all the help and information! > > Cheers, -link > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
