Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (242 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> 2010/12/7 Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> > > Thanks.
> > > "extension programs" are very long? It's difficult to know when this
> > > kind things can be removed this way.
> >
> > The above Obsoletes is not really relevant for openSUSE itself, but it does 
> > not hurt either.
> >
> > I think you are free to remove it right now if you want to.
>
> How do you maintain SLE packages? Do you have patches over openSUSE's
> spec files to add this kind of things?

No patches. So far we split off the SLE package sets as SLE entered Beta.

How we handle this with openSUSE -> SLE 12 is still open as the new 
community involved development gives its challenges.
 
> > > Now I would also need to see bnc#93878 (-fsigned-char removed from
> > > default cflags). This one is less obvious, perhaps should be reported
> > > upstream...
> >
> > I dont think this signed char vs unsigned char is an issue anymore.
>
> OK. But I would like to clarify the situation with this kind of bug
> reports. If they aren't security related, how they got "protected" to
> start with? Even if they would be security related, shouldn't them be
> public after some time (e.g. patch release + 2 months)?

They are internal, as the product (SLE11 GA) is internal. That the bugs
are referenced externally is not so good of course here, but the bugs will
usually stay internal.

Ciao, Marcus
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