Outdated packaging in packaging/Debian

[simo]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 07:57 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 05:29:27AM -0500, Andrew Kroeger wrote:
> > 
> > > Please do not take this the wrong way, but Samba is far too dynamic to  
> > > allow downstream sources to be the ultimate authority WRT packaging.
> > 
> > Debian and Ubuntu are far too dynamic to allow upstream sources to be the
> > ultimate authority WRT packaging. :)  Effectively, all that packaging is is
> 
> I think that Andrew was not objecting to this, but more to the removal
> of *other* distros packaging (RPM-based stuff).

I'd be ok with dropping references to Fedora from RPM packaging, but we
could maintain something for RHEL, as RHEL does not change so fast.

My 2c,
Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>