[1948] in athena10
Re: Athena delete
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Sun Mar 29 18:28:22 2009
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:27:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
cc: belg4mit@pthbb.org, debathena@mit.edu
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On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> I suppose this is an opportunity to get my personal changes to delete
> (which I still use, of course :-) folded back into the Debathena source
> tree so that (a) I no longer need to maintain a separate copy of the
> sources and (b) other people can benefit from the fixes I've made.
Thanks for the patches; we would be happy to include them. Are you
willing to release them under the same license as the current software,
the MIT license (mit-copying.h)?
> But I'd prefer to do that only do that you're willing to stick into the
> tree the files necessary to build an RPM (although the Debian build
> won't use them, obviously), since I still use an RPM-based system.
After some discussion, we decided that we cannot realistically support
multiple packaging systems from the Athena source tree. Since Athena
development is centered around Debian packaging, providing RPM packaging
for a single package would imply a maintenance promise that we aren’t in a
position to make. Tools like git-svn or svk would let you maintain a Red
Hat package in an external tree, which doesn’t need additional support
from our end.
Anders
SIPB Debathena team
