On June 10, 2015 5:59:35 AM EDT, Stanislav Baiduzhyi
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Stanislav Baiduzhyi
wrote: Right. So either you haven't read my email, or you haven't checked
On Monday 08 June 2015 16:02:47 Greg Freemyer wrote: 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:
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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
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/mc/mc.changes? 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.
Stas, I clearly work with the official development versions. If I find they don't build the way I want I branch, change, submit. In general the SR is accepted. Thus I looked at mc to see what change was not being submitted back to the development project a disabled feature that can cause data loss when enabled made sense to me. What kind of build tweaks are living in home directories? Why aren't they being SR'ed back to the devel project? To me anything that encourages a divergence between devel packages and home packages is going in the wrong direction. Greg -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org