On 09/29/2010 10:11 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
On Wednesday 29 of September 2010, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've been trying to submit an svn derived version of KTrafficAnalyzer to KDE:Extra,
The rules for accepting versions for KDE:Extra are outlined in http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Extra_repository (last paragraph). Since it is supposed to be a stable repository, only stable releases should be included, which "random" svn versions generally are not.
the package used to be in the old kde3 community repo and has been around in openSUSE for quite a while. It's been ported to kde4. I've been using the package from the authors home project and it occasionally crashed and lost the usage stats but after my recent update from KDE:Distro:Factory it consistently segfaulted on start up. This is a good thing that enabled me to track down the problem and patch it. It's now stable on a patched svn revision 44 so I decided to submit this very usefull package to KDE:Extra and am quite happy to maintain it as I use it all the time and it's a simple package only to have it rejected on the grounds that it's svn derived. This seems a bit stupid because the released package is unstable and even has a source forge bug against it from an openSUSE 11.3 user.
Submit a stable release with a patch fixing the crash, or (assuming you've sent the fix to the upstream author) ask the author to make a new release. And if none of these options seem good enough to you, there is always the option "discuss it on opensuse-kde".
I've had problems submitting a package fix to KDE:Extra before but in that case the maintainers reply was rather rude that issue was simply bad communication and was resolved and that particular maintainer accepted my second submit attempt of KTrafficAnalyzer pointing out that there wasn't a Url: in the spec file and asking me to fix it. I decided to patch the released tarball to svn 44 and submit that along with the fixed spec file but alas the first anti subversion maintainer caught the request and declined it.
Since you do not include the submit request numbers, this is difficult to judge from both sides, but, given the rules above, declining these requests with an explanation looks correct to me.
My only concern is that a stable package was considered unstable simply because it contained svn when I know the released version is unstable. A lot of users would ignore the occasional crash or simply use a similar package and the unstable package would just sit and become unpopular. The requests were starting with the initial one #49479 #49479 and #49525. I've emailed the author, who has a build service account, home:Viras, about the patch and my intention to submit to KDE:Extra and also commented in the source forge bug. I should try sitting in on an irc meeting. Thanks Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org