On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Adrian Schroeter wrote:
I had to remove mldonkey in your projects for legal reasons. Please do not submit it again.
We maintain a list of software, which can't get maintained in the openSUSE build service at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Application_Black_List
Please check or ask back if you are unsure.
What is illegal with mldonkey? It is a normal P2P software, has no cracking possibilities and does not violate patents. I don't see a valid reason to remove it (or I would not have added it at all). It is the second time that a decision from above destroys lots of work done (the first was removal of SuSE9.3 from one day to the other) and I don't find this very nice. The minimum I expect in such cases is a) Explaining the reason. "This is illegal" is no reason. What is illegal? b) A discussion before explaining your point of view and giving the chance to find contra to it. c) A time to react to any deletions before they occur including fixing the offending packages if possible or backup the data before deleting. IT IS VERY DISCOURAGING TO INVEST LOTS OF WORK INTO SOMETHING AND THEN SEE THIS WORK VANISH WITHOUT VALID REASON. For the bugtracker of openSUSE there is a quality assurance helping to fix such issues. Implement the same for BuildService. It is nice to have such a service, but if it is not reliable I have other things to do. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org