Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (551 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 04:12:32PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a series of broken packages because of _service files I would like to
> forbid them in openSUSE:Factory.
>
> So far I've seen the use of _service files in factory as an experiment (I 
> happily joined), but I see this experiment as failed.
>
> What I would like to propose is:
>  - ban recompress, download and tarscm as _services (everything else should 
>    have been banned before)
>  - instead we verify the Source urls and make packages that have invalid URLs
>    "broken", so you can't SR them to factory.
>
> This means: the Source URL is now an important thing to change and no longer a
> bit rotting comment and we stop recompressing tars - this was a proposal from 
> Adrian a while ago without much objection.
>
> Please comment or I will go forward.

Makes sense to me, please go forward with this.

greg k-h
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