Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch 05 September 2007 schrieb Andras Barna:
> HI
> some time ago i asked about dropped packages policy [1],
> coolo answered that "But lately "dropped" means often: moved from
> Factory to some build service project.".
> So yesterday I searched for one of the my favorite application: xmms
> using webpin, in Factory only one result was: xfce4-panel-plugin-xmms,
> iirc it requires xmms, but where is xmms?? OK in coolo's answer
> there's the "often" word, but I don't understand why was it dropped. I
> searched the bugzilla, no bugs shown regarding to xmms. Yes I know
> what ppl are saying about xmms, but I like it and imho other people
> likes it too.
> What are saying ppl bad about xmms? some examples:
> 1. unmaintained. false: [2] [3]
> 2. it's buggy, as i said no xmms bugs in bugzilla
> 3. uses gtk 1. so? gtk1 is in Factory
> etc
>
> btw I thought that "the mission" is to have more and more packages not
> to drop packages
No, the goal is to have packages that are uptodate. And gtk1 using packages 
are not.

Greetings, Stephan

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