Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (564 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 06.12.2011 22:37, schrieb Peter Linnell:
> On 12/06/2011 11:38 AM, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > did I miss a note?
> > Why are Factory packages changed w/o going through the devel project
> > again?
> >
> > This is very annoying as my workflow is not to track Factory and do my
> > modifications but Factory is the last step in my workflow where changes
> > end up.
> > And even worse I wouldn't know about the changes at all if I wouldn't
> > monitor opensuse-commit@.
> > So my next submit to *:Factory and later on to openSUSE:Factory would
> > just revert the changes (if Factory maintainers wouldn't notice what
> > they probably would).
> >
> > Not amused,
> >   Wolfgang
>
> Which packages have changed ? If should be easy through osc to see the
> changes and the guilty parties ;)

It was a License bulk change affecting basically all mozilla packages
(just a syntax change).
The change happened directly in openSUSE:Factory and even without any
changelog entry. In general I like pragmatic approaches like this to
make easy changes. For my workflow it's just disturbing though because
as I wrote if I don't notice I'd overwrite all changes again. In the
final step of updating (submitting to Factory) it would get declined
then and would cause another cycle of changes through my different projects.
I would have been in favour of a different approach in that case:
- announce clearly the new policy for license tags (I only read some
  references but nothing dedicated)
- rpmlint checks (even fatal would be fine for Factory)
- let maintainers fix it
- before 12.2 release do a bulk change for packages not already fixed

Wolfgang
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