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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild
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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