Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Popular branches, moving them to "official" repos

On Monday 08 June 2015 16:02:47 Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Stanislav Baiduzhyi

wrote:

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Right. So either you haven't read my email, or you haven't checked the spec file for mc in factory. It has '--disable-vfs-fish' configure flag specifically set.

Yet when you search through the OBS, there are 11 branches (or rather rebuilds) of mc, 7 of them have fish enabled as the main change over the factory version.

Looking at the mc changelog in the devel project it says fish was disabled due to a data loss bug:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/mc/mc.changes? expand=1

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856501 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3128

In that case what are you asking for?

A new repo called "I know there's a data corruption bug, but I want the feature anyway". (I'm sure there is a better name but you get the idea.)

If so, there is clearly at least some demand. I'd say make the proposal and see if it flies. Personally I avoid software with known data corruption bugs if at all possible.

mc is just a good example, but I mean the case in general. How many forks of other packages with minor tuning are there? Searching for some specific version of package is not very helpful, browsing through revision history of every one of those "home:/" packages is very time consuming, so it is usually faster to branch and change yourself. -- Regards, Stas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org