On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Sascha Peilicke
On 08/15/2013 03:54 PM, Todd Rme wrote:
I notice that building has been disabled for everything but factory for a large number of python packages in devel:languages:python. These packages build fine for earlier releases, in fact some haven't been updated in years (others were updated within the last few weeks).
Reducing build failures increases the project's ranking, so you get faster rebuilds. The magic words are "earlier releases". Sometimes people just do one-off submits and forget about the package and their responsibility :-)
I've tested some of these packages and they build fine on other releases. There doesn't seem to be any pattern related to how well-maintained they are, either. Some have had updates within a few months, other not in years, while other packages that have been updated much further in the past are still enabled.
I don't see any mention of this happening on the mailing list. Is there a reason this was done?
I've been fixing countless Python packages over the years but I just disabled building against SLE for those I don't care about. Whenever somebody needs a specific package for SLE but lacks the coding skills, I even kindly fix those. The rest lies in the hand of the greater community.
This isn't just SLE, the packages have building disabled generally and have only openSUSE_Factory manually set to enabled. Examples include python-zdaemon, python-bsddb3, python-setproctitle, and python-xdg. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org