Matthew Garrett wrote:
If it's clear to FESCo that the feature is going to have a
significant
impact on packages outside of those directly affected by the change then
FESCo should take that into account when approving the feature. However,
if a feature is well-confined to the packages under the maintainer's
responsibility then second-guessing the maintainer's judgement is
dangerous. Any negative fallout should be dealt with by the maintainer,
and unless that fails I don't see any reason for FESCo to be involved.
The feature definitely has a significant impact on freetype. And freetype-
freeworld (which I own in RPM Fusion), though that's not in Fedora for
obvious reasons. At the very least, you need to talk to Marek Kasik, the
Fedora maintainer of freetype.
Kevin Kofler