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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: contributing a software through bugzilla
From:       Rahul Sundaram <sundaram () fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2007-04-30 12:55:20
Message-ID: 4635E468.5020306 () fedoraproject ! org
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Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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> The only legitimate reason to patch is time-lags between upstream and
> current version. 

Not true. There are licensing reasons, difference in defaults, 
differences in approaches between upstream and distributions etc.

> If this isn't reason, then patching is a strong indication for something
> about the development model not being functional.

It could also be indicative of that. Encouraging patches to be submitted 
upstream is a good thing but the number of patches are not indicated as 
a review blocker and won't stop a package from being included in Fedora.

Rahul

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