On 03/23/2017 07:49 PM, Luca Beltrame wrote:
Il giorno Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:15:21 +0100 Rüdiger Meier
ha scritto: We need written rules. IMO It should be really really really difficult for a package maintainer to update his package in Leap. In
If you make it too difficult, you'll have maintainers lose their interest in actually maintaining their packages in Leap.
Well that's what I want. There _is_nothing_ to maintain/to upgrade except fixing reported bugs (and _maybe_ adding very important features). You should fully concentrate on Tumbleweed development.
In order to properly support some upgrades (KDevelop and KDE Applications, specifically) I went out of my way with upstreams to make sure things would work without making release management too angry. Make it more difficult than this (and if you care about the distro, doing a good job is *already* difficult) and I wouldn't just bother.
The KDE stuff may be a bit special because SLE does not have it. BTW I'm still using Kdevelop3 (though not often). Later versions have no automake support anymore ...
Lets make an example. Let's scare away all the users and maintainers who always wants the newest stuff. Tumbleweed is made for them.
What if we ship unmaintained software? KDEPIM 4.x was kept in 42.2 to eas transitions, but we knew well in advance that it had *no* support from upstream even before the release.
I'm still using kmail 3 just because I haven't found a similar good working MUA yet. Actually right now I'm using Thunderbird and it's a pain, though still not as bad as kmail >3.
For 42.3 we're going to remove it. This isn't just "the newest stuff". It's ease of maintenance.
Exactly this is what should be forbidden strictly IMO. Removing packages during LTS lifetime is a no no. Otherwise Leap is just ... whatever, but for sure no LTS. Please don't remove kpim4 or any other package from Leap. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org