Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1995 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 10 April 2009 20:51:24 Richard wrote:
> The OBS is part of the openSuSE structure, maintained by openSuSE.org,
> provided as a SERVICE and is a form of distribution, used (if we are to
> believe anything we read in these mail lists) to create the last
> distribution and presumably the upcoming release(s) and probably many of
> the included applications and other programs and libraries used by openSuSE
> and the versions of DE's like KDE and others.

No, far from everything in there is in any way officially maintained by SUSE. 
Any member of the openSUSE community can maintain packages in the build 
service

> So when something breaks
> something in the OBS

It didn't break. It was ported to KDE4. If you don't like that, take it up 
with the developer (who does not work for SUSE)

> This idea of "OFFICIAL" openSuSE updates is very nebulous at best.   First,
> it is very ill defined.

No, it is very well defined. It is anything you get in the official Update 
channel.

> Second, it often breaks existing released code.  

It shouldn't, and normally doesn't. If you run into something that does, 
please file a bug, because that would be an extremely serious incident.

> Third, often the fix is 'WONTFIX' ostensibly because of lack of resources
> or interest or simple laziness.
>
> Telling people to 'Stick with the older version of the package' is
> tantamount to saying "We know there are other bugs in our software that we
> will fix and release in the future,

No, it is saying "the (external) developer ported his application to KDE4, so 
if you want to use KDE3 you can't use the newer packages

Anders
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