[opensuse-packaging] Opera package with Presto and Blink
Hi openSuse! Currently we are stuck with an outdated version of Opera 12, the last release of Opera with its own engine Presto and their included email client M2. This package is called "opera". Opera decided to drop Presto and use WebKit and now Blink, beginning with Opera 15. The browser was re-written from scratch and misses features many users don't want to miss. Long time there was no Linux version. With Opera 25 there is an official Linux version available, it is released as a x64 binary Debian package. In OBS is a package for Opera 26, cf. home:XRevan86:non-free/opera. XRevan86 requested several merges to the upstream Opera package, but was declined, I don't now why. I propose to keep the old Opera 12 package as "opera12" or "opera-presto" and include XRevan86's package as a new "opera" package. What do you think? Is there a reason not to do so? Bye Christoph -- Wir haben eine Generation, die Autofahren als Ablenkung vom SMS-Schreiben empfindet. -- Daimler-Manager Ralf Herrtwich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
Christoph Grüninger wrote:
I propose to keep the old Opera 12 package as "opera12" or "opera-presto" and include XRevan86's package as a new "opera" package.
What do you think? Is there a reason not to do so?
You should only keep packages, especially web-browsers, for which you can provide security updates. Can you patch opera12 to fix security issues? Ciao, Michael.
Le 10/01/2015 11:54, Michael Ströder a écrit :
I propose to keep the old Opera 12 package as "opera12" or "opera-presto" and include XRevan86's package as a new "opera" package.
What do you think? Is there a reason not to do so? You should only keep packages, especially web-browsers, for which you can
Christoph Grüninger wrote: provide security updates. Can you patch opera12 to fix security issues?
Ciao, Michael.
There is no reason to keep an outdated version of Opera. Just provide Opera 25. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
On Sat 10 Jan 2015 11:50:31 AM CST, Christoph Grüninger wrote:
Hi openSuse! Currently we are stuck with an outdated version of Opera 12, the last release of Opera with its own engine Presto and their included email client M2. This package is called "opera". Opera decided to drop Presto and use WebKit and now Blink, beginning with Opera 15. The browser was re-written from scratch and misses features many users don't want to miss. Long time there was no Linux version. With Opera 25 there is an official Linux version available, it is released as a x64 binary Debian package. In OBS is a package for Opera 26, cf. home:XRevan86:non-free/opera. XRevan86 requested several merges to the upstream Opera package, but was declined, I don't now why.
I propose to keep the old Opera 12 package as "opera12" or "opera-presto" and include XRevan86's package as a new "opera" package.
What do you think? Is there a reason not to do so?
Bye Christoph
Hi If your wanting an Opera 12 UI, then feel free to grab my build of otter-browser and look after it, once you grab it just send me a delete request. http://otter-browser.org/ https://software.opensuse.org/package/otter-browser -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default up 7 days 20:02, 3 users, load average: 0.50, 0.38, 0.31 CPU Intel® B840@1.9GHz | GPU Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
Hi, thanks for all the answers with different advices about Opera 12. Actually I am more interested to get Opera 26 into some official repository. Regarding requests like https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/266526 what needs to be done? Some, at least semi-official, statement would be nice. Thanks, Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
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