Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Ruediger Oertel <ro@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Michael Wolf wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:36 +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>
> >  - package splits / renames won't be reviewed in the future. For this
> >    clearly mark the split in the changelog. And do not branch packages
> >    that are not subpackages (this is _very_ important!).
>
> Just to be sure I understand:
>
> 1. branching foo-devel from foo is ok
yes, as long as you adapt the necessary fields in PDB like summary
and description.

> 2. branching foo-extra-package (assuming it's an entirely different
> package, building from its own spec in its own working directory, etc)
> from foo is not ok
>
> 3. branching foo-doc from foo-devel is ...?
probably okay as long as foo-doc and foo-devel stem from the same
specfile. The original idea is to branch foo-doc from foo, but
going the detour via foo-devel (which was normally branched from foo)
is alright. (but remember my comment to 1.)

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with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
   Ruediger Oertel (ro@xxxxxxxxxx,ro@xxxxxxx,bugfinder@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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