[getdns-api] Packaging getdns-api for RHEL/Fedora/CentOS

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> PaulW gets the First Outsider award. Hopefully he ends up contributing more, if needed. Verisign folks: PaulW is a very opinionated security geek who wants more out of DNSSEC because he understands it very well both from protocol and operational perspectives. I say that both as a warning and a suggestion that you listen to his feature requests. I don't always agree with him, but I rarely find his suggestions easily dismissible.

Thanks I guess :)

>>> Package is up for review at:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070510
>
> PaulW: What is the "normal" thing that happens when such a package gets reviewed at RedHat?

Someone reviews the package for compliance to packaging guidelines. Then
I request the branches (fedora versions, epel versions to match rhel)
and it is included in Fedora and EPEL. (epel is "extras for rhel",
binary compatible with centos). And I'm stuck as the maintainer :)

Once there is customer demand, the package gets included into RHEL (and
usually gets removed from EPEL or at least not branched for the next
version)

Paul