From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:36:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)
Message-ID: <43667227.9090606@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4q6xfpqg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I do not know much about how things are done in the RPM world,
> but is there a concept of "the upstream" vs "packaging
> maintainer" there?  IOW, are the majority of RPM binary packages
> done by the upstream maintainer?
> 

It does both ways.  I think Chris Wright has been doing the formal 
maintenance of RPM for Fedora.

Latency is an issue, though, especially for kernel.org.

	-hpa