On Friday 09 January 2004 15:59, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:22:20 +0100, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
No, when a package is in a public repository it is too late. People will begin to use this repository as default one since it has lots of cool packages. Since packages are already published, bugreports will have a low priority for the packagers and bugs stay forever (rawhide is a good example).
I don't think this is a problem. When rawhide bugs are not maintained this mostly means they are gone
A basic package like 'procps' is broken for nearly two months already...
in Extras you could fix it yourself and your (newer) package would eventually be voted to stable
No. Don't expect Extras to be permitted to upgrade Core. There won't be competition between Extras and Core. Extras are really just add-ons.
Oh, I didn't mean this specific case.
I meant if procps were in Extras (not Core) you could fix it yourself.
But I hope it will be possible for non-RH people to contribute to Core also (so that i.e. you could fix procps).