Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (98 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 28 août 2008, à 15:16 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer a écrit :
> 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? ;-)

I'm trying to follow ;-) I honestly don't know about python-setuptools
and repoview. So let's just talk about offlineimap: is it really basic
functionality for you? It's certainly not for me. I expect 95% of our
users to not even care about it (but it's truly awesome, I agree).

> > 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.

Heh. Fair enough :-)

Vincent

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