[csw-maintainers] Intents to package

[Philip Brown]

On Thursday, January 6, 2011, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:

>>
> This works as long as you know in advance what the problem is.  In
> practice you often don't.  For example, I would have never guessed
> that there would be a problem around files vs symlinks in /opt/csw/lib
> (in the mysql libraries thread[1]).  I would have only hit it when
> trying to submit my package.  Thanks to the ITP thread I was able to
> know about the issue in advance.
>
> You can say that it's a general issue with shared libraries, but we
> wouldn't come across it if we didn't consider the specific case of a
> package compiled in a custom prefix.


certainly for bigger packages it is useful to mention it and ask for
any gotchas.
I shouldn't say "never announce".

I also wanted to avoid giving maintainers the impression that from now
on they "have to announce".  that might discourage people from
experimenting with a new package, if they aren't initially sure they
want to take it on.