Michal Vyskocil wrote:
Having a package on a products means greater responsibility of course.
Yes and this is exactly why I asked if maintenance rules were not changed (and I did not catch that change somehow). The main reason why I have some packages in Contrib and not in Factory is because I don't want to take this level of responsibility for maintenance. I'm willing to provide the "best effort", but that's all from my side.
AFAICT the maintenance rules are documented here: http://en.opensuse.org/Maintenance/Policy I don't know how they came into existence but I'd assume that the openSUSE maintenance team which consists of volunteers agreed on those rules. Since most packages in Factory are more or less maintained by volunteers "best effort" is all you can expect anyways.
Those responsibilities are a result of user expectations on openSUSE.
With an existence of widely used (and many times recommended) BuildService repositories - the situation changed a lot. I already agree with having strict rules for Factory, but as situation rapidly changed from old times, I also see the need for more let say - flexible, but no that supported repository. And that's a Contrib in my eyes - but maybe I'm completely wrong.
Maybe the 'not that supported' property could be expressed differently somehow, without a parallel world.
There's no excuse for avoiding Factory just to bypass openSUSE packaging policy IMO.
Sorry did not understand, what/who avoiding the packaging policy and how?
Well, I don't watch Contrib so I can only judge from random samples. dropbox for example is in contrib but was rejected for Factory because it claims to be GPL while secretly downloading and executing a binary only blob. Such a snaky package better shouldn't be in any sane repo IMHO. v8 lacks a .changes file. Minor issue, yet obvious. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org