Fedora Packaging: Staying Close to Upstream Projects

In the examples of Exceptions,

> Distribution Integration

Yeah, so much. Example that happend a few years ago, in a project I particpated to:

downstream sends a patch to support an alternative build system, the patch includes a CI run. Gentle upstream accepts. One day downstream stops giving a s**t and consequently does not maintain the support anymore. Eventually at some point the CI breaks. Now upstream has extra-work, while initially it did not really want to support the alternative build system.