Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 10:34:44 schrieb Archie Cobbs:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de> wrote:

> > Am Montag, 13. Februar 2012, 22:13:54 schrieb Adam Spiers:

> > > Archie Cobbs (archie.cobbs@gmail.com) wrote:

> > > > Why? First, it is worth observing that the very nature of OBS makes it

> > > > difficult to pursue that goal. Because in OBS, for any project/package

> > > > there is only one spec file - and therefore package version - for ALL

> > > > repositories.

> >

> > It is the easiest way, but there are also other ways with multiple spec

> > files.>

> > > > In other words, it would be impossible for a maintainer to configure a

> > > > package to build foobar-1.2 on openSUSE 11.3 but foobar-2.1 on

> > > > openSUSE 12.1.

> >

> > no.

> >

> > > > So what happens? They either try to shoehorn foobar-2.1 onto 11.3,

> > > > with lots of resulting build issues, or if that becomes too hard they

> > > > just drop support for 11.3 or leave the build broken.

> > > >

> > > > Some brave projects are willing to spawn sub-projects for each

> > > > openSUSE version, e.g. Virtualization:openSUSE11.3. But this is

> > > > unwieldy and hard to manage, and as a result most projects don't

> > > > bother to do this.

> >

> > that makes no sense usually. You can still build against

> > DISCONTINUED:openSUSE:11.3 from same project. It is just that an absolute

> > minority wants to support that at all.

>

> Adrian I'm sure you're getting tired of this conversation thread, and me

> too.

>

> I'm am going to give up trying to suggest solutions because I don't

> have the knowledge that you do and you can see all the flaws in my

> naive ideas.

>

> So let me just describe the problem one last time and ask you to

> please suggest the right answer.

>

> Right now it is impossible to (re)build our openSUSE 11.3-based server

> because, to take just ONE EXAMPLE, the mapserver package is not

> available for 11.3. This is because the Application:Geo/openSUSE_11.3

> repo was destroyed.

It was removed because it is not anymore maintained. And as the Application:Geo maintainer I can tell you that I will not spend the

additional work to do so in future.

(Keep in mind that maintaining for old distros costs way more time then for

current ones).

If you need that particular package, then branch the sources and maintain it in your project. But you can't expect other to do your work.

period

adrian

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Adrian Schroeter

SUSE Linux Products GmbH

email: adrian@suse.de