Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le lundi 09 mars 2009, à 14:34 +0100, Birger Kollstrand a écrit :
> 2009/3/9 Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I mean, we're already doing the work to backport GNOME 2.26 to 11.1, eg.
> > This would be the same thing (admittedly, a bit more difficult, since
> > we'll want to keep the new patches in GNOME:Factory in GNOME:Unstable,
> > but it's worth trying it at least once)
>
> All avoided if we have a general repository with backports that
> "normal" users can subscribe to. Just move from Factory/backports when
> the SW is considered stable. It can even generate positive press as
> "openSUSE relases KDE xxx or Gnome yyy for immediate update".

Sure, we're going to do that work in GNOME:STABLE, and the KDE team has
been doing that for quite time already too. So it's just a matter of
copying the packages from those projects into the backport project.

> Factory or 10 different repositories will probably not do the trick.
> Factory is to bleeding, and an everyday user will not manage X number
> of aditional repositories.

That's why we build new versions of GNOME/KDE for old versions of
openSUSE :-) Not everybody wants to use Factory, that's true.

Note that in the case of GNOME (and KDE, I assume), even to create a
backport project, we'll need to have our own project to make sure
everything is fine before moving all the packages to the backport
project. So what we currently do is actually a good first step to help
make happen what you'd like to see ;-)

Vincent

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