On 5/3/2011 10:12 AM, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
After a series of broken packages because of _service files I would like to forbid them in openSUSE:Factory.
So far I've seen the use of _service files in factory as an experiment (I happily joined), but I see this experiment as failed.
What I would like to propose is: - ban recompress, download and tarscm as _services (everything else should have been banned before) - instead we verify the Source urls and make packages that have invalid URLs "broken", so you can't SR them to factory.
This means: the Source URL is now an important thing to change and no longer a bit rotting comment and we stop recompressing tars - this was a proposal from Adrian a while ago without much objection.
Please comment or I will go forward.
Greetings, Stephan
Does everything actually have a valid url that goes to an archive? Some things just have web sites where the download link is a cgi, sometimes a poorly written cgi, and no direct simple link to the actual archive is offered, and trying to wget/curl the url doesn't work or doesn't work as desired. I actually have a couple of small packages of my own that I do not host anywhere else but in the build service. The build service essentially _is_ the most upstream root source for this code. Then there are git/hg/svn snapshots Then there are packages whose real original host/maintainer have long since gone away and all there are now are many places that maintain it, but none can be considered the new authoritative upstream maintainer. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org