[opensuse-factory] Chromium to be included in Factory ?
Since last week Chromium has received it's own little place in the openSUSE OBS and will be removed from the Contrib repo's in the next few days. The thinking behind this move was to submit Chromium (including it's javascript interpreter V8) to Factory. It would be definitely good to have Chromium and V8 checked legally, but I wonder if inclusion in Factory is something that is really wanted. Or that there are obvious objections against it. If we would like to go forward with this, then I would like to ask if the project network:chromium can be listed as devel project for chromium, so that I can submit both packages. Thanks Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Le jeudi 25 août 2011, à 11:49 +0200, Raymond Wooninck a écrit :
Since last week Chromium has received it's own little place in the openSUSE OBS and will be removed from the Contrib repo's in the next few days.
The thinking behind this move was to submit Chromium (including it's javascript interpreter V8) to Factory. It would be definitely good to have Chromium and V8 checked legally, but I wonder if inclusion in Factory is something that is really wanted. Or that there are obvious objections against it.
I guess users would love to have it easily installable (which implies available in the standard repos).
If we would like to go forward with this, then I would like to ask if the project network:chromium can be listed as devel project for chromium, so that I can submit both packages.
Just submit the packages, and the devel projects will be set automatically. Note that this means you'll need to provide security updates for released versions of openSUSE, though. Which might not be easy. Did you discuss this with the security team? Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:50:43AM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le jeudi 25 août 2011, à 11:49 +0200, Raymond Wooninck a écrit :
Since last week Chromium has received it's own little place in the openSUSE OBS and will be removed from the Contrib repo's in the next few days.
The thinking behind this move was to submit Chromium (including it's javascript interpreter V8) to Factory. It would be definitely good to have Chromium and V8 checked legally, but I wonder if inclusion in Factory is something that is really wanted. Or that there are obvious objections against it.
I guess users would love to have it easily installable (which implies available in the standard repos).
If we would like to go forward with this, then I would like to ask if the project network:chromium can be listed as devel project for chromium, so that I can submit both packages.
Just submit the packages, and the devel projects will be set automatically.
Note that this means you'll need to provide security updates for released versions of openSUSE, though. Which might not be easy. Did you discuss this with the security team?
In general Security does not mind, trusted that the maintainer push the updates for the current product lifetime (especially for this kind of package). Reading opensuse-contrib I see Raymond doing this, so it looks ok from us. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:50:43AM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le jeudi 25 août 2011, à 11:49 +0200, Raymond Wooninck a écrit : [...]
If we would like to go forward with this, then I would like to ask if the project network:chromium can be listed as devel project for chromium, so that I can submit both packages.
Just submit the packages, and the devel projects will be set automatically.
Note that this means you'll need to provide security updates for released versions of openSUSE, though. Which might not be easy. Did you discuss this with the security team?
In general Security does not mind, trusted that the maintainer push the updates for the current product lifetime (especially for this kind of package).
Well I'd say we do mind in general as I assume nobody wants to have known broken or even dangerous stuff on the distro. In cases like this however it's better to have the package in Factory where it stays on everyone's radar and at least some basic packaging rules have to be followed rather than having users download a package from random build service repos IMO. Having chromium in a released distro will put some pressure on our update process and repository though as it needs quick and frequent updates. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 29 August 2011 12:09:43 Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Having chromium in a released distro will put some pressure on our update process and repository though as it needs quick and frequent updates.
This is definitely a point that needs a little bit more work :-) Afaik the current update process only allows important bugfixes and security updates into the update repo of a released distro. For chromium this might be difficult as that it seems that it is a kind of rolling release and bugfixes are made available together with a new release (talking about the stable chrome releases). But maybe it would be possible to backport important fixes to the older version and I have the feeling that a lot of people will anyway be using the packages from the devel project to stay on the latest releases. But lets take one step at the time :-) Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:52:54PM +0200, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
On Monday 29 August 2011 12:09:43 Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Having chromium in a released distro will put some pressure on our update process and repository though as it needs quick and frequent updates.
This is definitely a point that needs a little bit more work :-) Afaik the current update process only allows important bugfixes and security updates into the update repo of a released distro. For chromium this might be difficult as that it seems that it is a kind of rolling release and bugfixes are made available together with a new release (talking about the stable chrome releases).
But maybe it would be possible to backport important fixes to the older version and I have the feeling that a lot of people will anyway be using the packages from the devel project to stay on the latest releases.
But lets take one step at the time :-)
Doing the versions revs is quite fine for openSUSE, as we do the same for Firefox these days too. The current update process is also more open and allowing than some years ago. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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