Les Mikesell wrote:
Why, for example, couldn't the changes you say
fedora needs as a dependency for openoffice be included in the
jpackage
repository for that fedora release and maintained as exact copies?
You are again ignoring reasons already explained. Jpackage specializes
in Java packages and doesn't include all the packages Fedora does and
vice versa. So the dependencies cannot be the same. Even it does there
are differences in release cycles, patches, packaging and licensing
policy among other reasons. It is pretty difficult to have two variants
of a software with different maintainers in two different repositories
perfectly in sync all the time even with the best efforts.
Rahul