https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c36
--- Comment #36 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-14 09:53:13 UTC ---
An official update for openSUSE 12.1 requires
a Ghostscript version upgrade from 9.04 to 9.05
of our current official "ghostscript-library" package in our
current official development project "Printing:ghostscript"
but this package has very many patches which may make it
time consuming and annoying to adapt all those patches to
the new Ghostscript version.
This is what Stefan Brüns did, see comment #8.
Perhaps a version upgrade from 9.04 to 9.05 is easy
for "ghostscript-library" in "Printing:ghostscript"?
Currently (and probably never in the foreseeable future)
I do not have the time to work on overcomplicated packages
like our "ghostscript-library" with its tons of patches.
What is even more important (from my point of view):
Overcomplicated packages with tons of patches are a nightmare
to maintain and I think no volunteer would like do this
so that overcomplicated packages could be a main reason
why there are not more volunteers who contribute to openSUSE
which could be a main handicap for the whole openSUSE project.
In short:
Why wasting our own time with tons of our own patches
when the plain upstream software "just works"?
And if the plain upstream software has issues,
why not fix issues together with upstream
so that all users will get them fixed?
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