[scribus] add unstable scribus to fedora repository

"Christoph Schäfer" christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
Wed Dec 9 06:14:24 UTC 2015



> Gesendet: Dienstag, 08. Dezember 2015 um 16:43 Uhr
> Von: "Gregory Pittman" <gpittman at iglou.com>
> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Betreff: Re: [scribus] add unstable scribus to fedora repository
>
> On 12/08/2015 10:11 AM, stefan-husmann at t-online.de wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original-Nachricht-----
> >> Betreff: [scribus] add unstable scribus to fedora repository
> >> Datum: 2015-12-08T13:02:54+0100
> >> Von: "Muhamad Moghadam" <msm1365 at gmail.com>
> >> An: "scribus at lists.scribus.net" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> > 
> >> below address is scribus repository for fedora :
> > 
> >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_23/
> > 
> >> but is only stable version in repo while stable version is in official
> >> fedora repo. we need to be unstable scribus version in repository.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I might be wrong, but my guess would be that the scribus maintainers and developers have no influence on Fedora's decisions what will be taken into a repository and what not. So you might ask them.
> > 
> > On Arch Linux only stable versions enter official repositories. I think Fedora has similar politics.
> > 
> 
> It's actually worse than that. Because our online docs that come with
> Scribus have a license that Fedora folks don't like, they do not want to
> have it in their repository. Of course, they might put it in one of the
> rpmfusion repos, but they don't seem to want to do that either.
> Consequently, the "current" Scribus in Fedora is 1.4.4

I don't buy this rationale. The documentation licence hasn't changed one bit between 1.4.4 and 1.4.6 (or 1.5.x, for that matter). There has to be another reason for their decision.

Christoph




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