Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (135 mails)

[Petr Cerny <pcerny@xxxxxxx>]

Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> I'm no user of jabberd so I don't care to much in that special case.
> 
> The issue I see with such things (dropping from distribution and
> maintaining in buildservice only) is a quality one.
> 
> Generally a package from the official distribution is trusted because it
> maintains a certain quality standard (in most cases) because it is
> (should be) more tested from Novell and the community in theory while
> that might be not true for every single package.
> 
> There are for sure packages in the buildservice which meet the same
> quality standard and testing level but at the moment there is no way to
> know that for the normal user.

I agree however, having some fast evolving project in distribution may
also be very painfull and time-demanding as we have to provide (i.e.
backport) security bugfixes for product lifetime (currently 2y for
OpenSuSE) - not that I strictly refuse want to do that, yet it's an
add-on which isn't used very often.

Best regards
        Petr

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