[scribus] add unstable scribus to fedora repository

[Craig Bradney]

> On 09 Dec 2015, at 07:14, Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>> -----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 :
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>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_23/
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>>>> 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.
> 

I’m not considering this particular situation with Fedora. I think as a general answer to adding and improving documentation, we should have potentially hundreds writing it, not 2 or 3 partially active people.

Craig