Packaging Guidelines discussions

[Ken VanDine]

That definately makes sense.  What kind of forum?  More than just
threads on the mailing list?  Should we maybe have an irc channel?
Perhaps do regulary irc or phone conferences?  

--Ken

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:04 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Since all of us distro folks have our own in-distro packaging
> guidelines, wouldn't it make sense to start meeting and discussing these
> things with other distros to try and get some conformity going on?  A
> recent discussion about how to deal with jpackage brought this home, as
> I read mandriva's proposed way of dealing with them which mostly matched
> ours, but ours had filled some holes that theirs could use and vice
> versa.  Also, it seemed a lot of our guidelines were to work around
> flaws in upstream jpackage, and they could also participate here and get
> the flaws fixed as feedback from their consumers.
> 
> Plenty of other things apply, java, mono, perl, python, etc...
> Thoughts?
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