Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (551 mails)

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/3/2011 10:12 AM, 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.
>
> Greetings, Stephan

Does everything actually have a valid url that goes to an archive?
Some things just have web sites where the download link is a cgi, 
sometimes a poorly written cgi, and no direct simple link to the actual 
archive is offered, and trying to wget/curl the url doesn't work or 
doesn't work as desired.

I actually have a couple of small packages of my own that I do not host 
anywhere else but in the build service. The build service essentially 
_is_ the most upstream root source for this code.

Then there are git/hg/svn snapshots

Then there are packages whose real original host/maintainer have long 
since gone away and all there are now are many places that maintain it, 
but none can be considered the new authoritative upstream maintainer.

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bkw
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