Non-redistributable packages: Skype, spotify, ...

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Nov 1 02:29:32 CET 2013


Alec Leamas wrote:
> This outcome is kind of a surprise also for me; my gut feeling was that
> these packages would end up in rpmfusion. However, the decision is
> seemingly based on that lpf packages contains nothing from upstream and
> nothing binary.  What they generate is another issue, but Spot's
> decision seems to be that  doesn't really matter, it's not on Fedora
> servers.

Huh? This is against:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_useful_without_external_bits

I'm going to complain about this to FPC, and if they ignore the issue, 
escalate it to FESCo. This kind of package has no business being in Fedora!

        Kevin Kofler


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