On Montag, 10. Mai 2021 14:19:52 CEST you wrote:
Hello maintainers of graphics/siril,
I hope you're all doing well!
I'm writing for a follow-up on an email I sent a while ago on the buildservice ML[1]
As an astrophotographer & openSUSE user myself, I worked quite a bit to package all missing software/drivers I could think of. Initially, they were located into my home repository, but since a couple of days we now have a dedicated devel project [2]
Probably I should have spoken up earlier, but this repository/project raises a lot of red flags for me: Many of the "new" packages, i.e. packages not copied/linked from existing packages have never seen any proper review. You specify totally invalid/wrong license information for several packages. Just 2 examples: 1. https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Application:Astrophotography/ libricohcamerasdk/libricohcamerasdk.spec?expand=1 - original source at https://github.com/indilib/indi-3rdparty/tree/master/libricohcamerasdk/lib According to you, this is MIT, although it is a proprietary, binary package only distributed as prebuilt library. 2. https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Application:Astrophotography/ SkyChart-data/SkyChart.spec?expand=1 According to you GPL, but that only applies to the Software, not the data packages. There are several more data packages, which have problematic licenses (or fail to specify a license at all, because they can't) for the OBS. You already tried to push some of these packages to the graphics project, you were told why these are not acceptable. For me this looks like an attempt to sidestep the issues.
My plan, once everything is set and in order, is to share the news also with the astro community. This would be nice for openSUSE, considering that we also build packages for aarch64
The small issue I'd like to solve with this move, is the "scattered around" state of the astro software/drivers. Therefore, I'd like to move under a single project all things astrophotography related, making the end user's life easier.
I actually see hardly any benefit, by adding another project things get even more scattered, only now it is scattered in a way which suits your personal needs well. Regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen phone: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019