Re: Question about the new 3rd party software policy and standardization across the distro

On Sep 23, 2016 10:39 PM, "Ben Rosser" <rosser.bjr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I was re-reading the third party software policy (and also the FESCo ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1617#comment:10), and happened to notice that it looks like WGs are currently intended to be the final arbiters of what repositories are and are not allowed to be included in particular Fedora editions, particularly this comment:
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> "The submission process is edition-based. Acceptance into Fedora Workstation, for instance, does not guarantee your software will be as easily available in another Fedora Edition or in a Fedora Spin. It is up to each working group or special interest groups how to make available any software in their system."
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> I realize I'm a little late to bring this up, but this seems potentially concerning if, say, the Workstation and Server WGs both want to include a third party repository that packages the same software but differently. This would then potentially make the editions incompatible, which doesn't seem ideal.

Can you elaborate on how this would be a problem?  Fedora packages cannot depend on third party software or repositories directly.  The editions already differ in some ways as that is actually the point of the editions.

josh