Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs(a)math.uh.edu) said:
>>>>> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com> writes:
RWMJ> I just received about a dozen bugs like this:
Yep, someone has taken it upon themselves to mass-file a bunch of
unnecessary tickets.
When FPC makes guidelines changes, they aren't generally accompanied by
some mandate that existing packages be changed. In fact, I can't think
of a time when a change was made retroactive. If there was something
that had to change in a bunch of packages, we'd at least try to organize
a labor pool to get that done without having to endlessly bug every
package maintainer.
This stems from a request of mine, and is therefore my fault..
Presets are a valuable new feature for both distribution constructors
and administrators - rather than having a single hardcoded policy *in
the packages* about what starts and doesn't start (and requires rebuilding
to fix), presets allow an easy way for:
- administrators
- provisioners
- spin maintainers
to easily define what should & shouldn't be running for their install.
However, it will take some work to get that done across the repository of
packages, so I requested that Vaclav, Lukas, Michal, and any others look
into what is needed to do this work in the repository. I had intended for
them to provide patches and an offer to commit, but I didn't communicate
that clearly to them. Apologies to those worried by these requests, and
to Vaclav, Lukas, and Michal for anything that comes their way.
Bill