Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1872 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 20:06 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
<snip>

> > So, who decides that the 10.2 repo should contain new and updated
> > packages of courier-imap, but the 11.0 repo should not have courier-imap
> > at all ?

>       They are openSuSE Build Service (OBS) repositories and are provided by 
> various
> individuals and groups, within or without novell, subject to novell
> requirements, for the benefit of the openSuSE community.
>
>       Novell/openSuSE will provide updates for packages contained in
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/XX.X/ in general from the date of
> release + 24 months through the http://download.opensuse.org/update/XX.X/
> repository.

>       Updates to all packages under 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ are
> provided when available from the maintainers of the repositories.
>
>       File bug reports against packages in the distribution and update 
> repositories
> and they will either be fixed, deferred to the next release or closed 
> depending
> on the severity and security implications posed.
>
>       Avoid filing bugs with the openSuSE bugzilla at bugzilla.novell.com for
> packages in the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ unless it poses a
> dire risk of nuclear war, post those problems to the list and then shut-up and
> don't complain. Otherwise some members of the list will quickly belittle you
> and attack you for not knowing that you shouldn't file bug reports with
> openSuSE against the openSuSE packages in the
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/.

Some other p.o.i....

a) The distictions between what is and what is not maintained is rather
vague, as some repo's are done by SuSE-people and some are not.
Obviously stuff in ~/repo/home:/ is as volatile as can be.
But how about the rpm's in ~/repo/security:/ and ~/repo/server/

b) some repo's end their lifecycle suddenly, no openSUSE_11.0 version
Is that pure and only upto the person who uploaded the stuff?

c) Since a couple of months, packman has already packages for
openSUSE_11.1, the beta-release. There is nothing for 11.1 on the OBS,
Probably it is safe to use the factory version of those.
Who decides to "enable 11.1" on the OBS.

d) If one should _not_ report issue's (large and small) of the addon
repo's on bugzilla.novell.com, where else?

Over and over gain Marcus and Andreas wrote that (for the official
released versions or beta's) bugs should not only be reported on the
appropiate mailing lists, as there is no following-up on them.

Might it be a good thing to have a bugzilla-entry dedicated for stuff on
the OBS??? (I wonder)


hw

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