Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (465 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

My impression was that packages in contrib could be upgraded to newer
versions with relative ease if the package maintainer wanted to do
that.

In fact, I thought that was one of the major differences between
factory/distro and contrib.

Reading http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Contrib#Rules_for_the_repository I see:

===
The repository is branched at openSUSE release time
(openSUSE:Factory:Contrib -> openSUSE:<version>:Contrib)

    * After the branch no version updates are allowed anymore, unless
explicitly allowed by openSUSE:<version>:Contrib maintainers.
    * Bugfixes happen as patches to the packages
===

That says to me, it has the same basic update rules as the distro.

Can someone clarify if the above is right.

If so, it leaves me with one big question.  What is the difference
between factory and contrib?

Reading the contrib page, I see nothing that tries to answer that question.

Greg
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