Am Samstag, 24. April 2010 11:24:28 schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles:
Hello,
Why is the 'universe' repository for Ubuntu not available in OBS?
bascially for time and legal reasons. It contains packages which are considered to be at least problematic by Novell legal and I don't have time to review them.
It seems that at the beginning you (OBS developers/maintainers/sysadmins) thought 'universe' was a moving target but Vincent Untz quickly corrected that misunderstanding.
That might be true in addition.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.buildservice/7749/focus=77...
Many essential packages are in universe, which makes very difficult to build Ubuntu packages in OBS. Examples of widely used libraries which are only available in Universe: Boost, Apache Portable Runtime (APR), FastCGI, libpng until Ubuntu 9.04, Rails, etc
Having to build every 'universe' package I need is a nightmare. Please, add 'universe' to OBS.
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