Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (168 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> On 04/20/2012 01:58 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > - how likely is it that we are going to patch an upstream java
> > >    library or application ourselves, rather than updating it to
> > >    an upstream release that fixes the issue ?
> > >    * very few in this project are fluent with java
> > >    * is it an issue to push a newer version to fix rather than
> > >      backporting changes/patches for those packages ?
> > Well, just recently we had the case where a fix was only a few lines
> > but the package couldn't be rebuilt from java source and upstream
> > only offered a major version update. That sucks. It's embarrassing
> > if a package is flagged as free software but you can't actually fix
> > it. If at all exceptions should be granted only on a case by case
> > basis after thorough review. Also such packages should not be put in
> > the oss tree.
> How about if we create a new tree for those Java applications? I think
> we should not use NonFree since this would confuse users, that they
> use non free software.

There is no usable source, you can't fix bugs in the code yourself
and you probably don't even know what license that random dump of
bundled jars has. Calling it non-free is the closest match.

cu
Ludwig

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