[Mageia-dev] On importing /soft

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Thu Jan 20 16:57:06 CET 2011


On 19.01.2011 22:32, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> http://svn.mageia.org/soft-cleaning/status.html#monitor-edid
> says "- README: Some reference to the Mandriva mailing list and
> bugzilla will need to be changed to Mageia ones"
> 
> Do we really want to?
> What is the point?
> I think we can package this tool as-is, as a tool provided by Mandriva
> like if we were packaging a non distro specific tool developed by
> RedHat or Debian or anyone and let people report their bugs upstream
> if the README says so.
> 
> If someday it becomes unmaintained or for any other reason, we can
> fork it, but currently I think of it as an external tool and see no
> reason in importing it into our svn
> 
> I did not read the full list but I guess there are other standalone
> tools that we don't need to fork into our svn.
> 
> Opinions?

+1 for no-fork for now.

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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