Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (806 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:50:43AM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 25 août 2011, à 11:49 +0200, Raymond Wooninck a écrit :
> > Since last week Chromium has received it's own little place in the openSUSE 
> > OBS and will be removed from the Contrib repo's in the next few days. 
> >
> > The thinking behind this move was to submit Chromium (including it's 
> > javascript interpreter V8) to Factory. It would be definitely good to have 
> > Chromium and V8 checked legally, but I wonder if inclusion in Factory is 
> > something that is really wanted. Or that there are obvious objections 
> > against 
> > it. 
>
> I guess users would love to have it easily installable (which implies
> available in the standard repos).
>
> > If we would like to go forward with this, then I would like to ask if the 
> > project network:chromium can be listed as devel project for chromium, so 
> > that 
> > I can submit both packages. 
>
> Just submit the packages, and the devel projects will be set
> automatically.
>
> Note that this means you'll need to provide security updates for
> released versions of openSUSE, though. Which might not be easy. Did you
> discuss this with the security team?

In general Security does not mind, trusted that the maintainer push
the updates for the current product lifetime (especially for this kind
of package).
Reading opensuse-contrib I see Raymond doing this, so it looks ok
from us.

Ciao, Marcus
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