On 01/27/2010 12:06 PM, Petr Uzel wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:12:25PM -0200, Alexandre D. Rogoski wrote:
The policy is that versions upgrades are allowed in o:F:C and only versions *updates* are allowed in o:11.2:C.
Yes, and for this reason I'd rather avoid linking the package. As far as I undestand, the reason why the packages in both repositories are the same is that so far it has been only bugfix releases going to both repositories. I know nothing about chromium development model, but what would happen if they released new version with new features (i.e. not a bugfix release)? This should certainly go to oS:F:C, but shouldn't be in oS:11.2:C, which would mean breaking the link => mess.
I told Raymond to post here, because I think we need to reconsider Contrib policy. Chromium is used by around 15% of users, which is higher percentage than for example Opera. This means that Chromium is important package and deserves a place in Contrib repo. However, there are a few problems with it: a) Google folks don't use proper versioning scheme - they keep increasing the build number and Chromium version is (latest released Chrome version + 1) - that's why it jumped from 4.0.306 to 5.0.307 (after Chrome 4 release) although there were almost no significant changes - it is hard to tell whether the release is bugfix only or not (certainly not from the version number) b) unpacked chromium sources are ~3GB and it is veeery painful to maintain patches (e.g. using quilt needs twice as much space) That's why I suggest to allow version updates for Contrib repository for small set of "exceptional" packages. These packages have to be leaf packages and should be linked from openSUSE:XX.Y:Contrib to openSUSE:Factory:Contrib and maintained in the latter one. What do you think of this change? -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-contrib+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-contrib+help@opensuse.org