Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (98 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vincent Untz schrieb:
> Le jeudi 28 août 2008, à 14:33 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer a écrit :
> > Alexey Eremenko schrieb:
> > > > * offlineimap
> > > > * python-setuptools
> > > > * repoview
> > > Yes, putting those in contrib would be good idea. This is where they
> > > really should belong.
> > I disagree. The above packages should be kept in openSUSE IMHO. As
> > Christoph and Greg already noticed offlineimap and python-setuptools
> > will still be maintained at Novell.
>
> How is the fact that Novell employees will maintain the packages
> relevant to where they should live (main repository or contrib
> repository, in this case)?

It's not. But I consider it "basic" functionality of a Linux
distribution. The "kept in openSUSE" is the point which means "kept in
the core set" and that implies "maintained at Novell".
Can you follow? ;-)

> Honest question -- I'm an offlineimap user, so I certainly want it to be
> well-maintained.

Yes, but that's completely irrelevant for where it's being hosted. I
know a set of packages which are not well-maintained although they are
maintained by Novell and not the community.

Wolfgang
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx