qtractor moved to Fedora

Nicolas Chauvet kwizart at gmail.com
Thu May 24 00:25:15 CEST 2012


2012/5/23 Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it at gmail.com>:
> On 05/21/2012 09:50 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>
>> Le 20 mai 2012 23:24, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler at chello.at
>> <mailto:kevin.kofler at chello.at>> a écrit :
>>
>>
>>    Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>     > But in this case I wonder why not to simply override the no
>>     > replacement policy ? At least a good reason would need to be
>> provided
>>     > for still obeying this policy.
>>
>>    Users in countries which obey software patents might not want their
>>    patent-
>>    compliant package silently replaced by a patent-encumbered one.
>>
>> It doens't hold, RPM Fusion free is fully made of patent encumbered
>> components by design.
>> Which make me wonder if we really need to requires the
>> rpmfusion-free-release from the rpmfusion-nonfree-release from patent
>> point of view.
>>
>> My point is that people using mp3 enabled qtractor from current RPM
>> Fusion shouldn't received a disabled package either.
>>
>> Nicolas (kwizart)
>
>
> I completely understand your concern here.
>
> Orcan has indicated that he was looking to find a new maintainer for
> qtractor in any case. I'm more than happy to maintain both and personally
> deal with the fallout. I think in Fedora renaming this anything other than
> the 'qtractor' is unlikely. I'm happy to consider the alternatives option

Ok so please at least consider submitting non-conflicting package.
Have a look on OpenEXR_Viewer-nonfree for a sample about using alternatives.

Nicolas (kwizart)


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