On 7/19/19 11:56 AM, simonizor wrote:
Is there any sort of process for notifying maintainers of packages if other package(s) their package(s) depend on are being removed from Factory? I looked around for some sort of notification about this, but found nothing. How are people supposed to be aware that things their packages depend on are being removed from Factory? Do they just always have to watch their package to make sure it builds?
OBS sends you an email when your packages fail to build, unless you have disabled notifications.
Next time maybe instead of calling for the removal of one of the more popular desktop environments on Linux because a lib was removed from Factory that caused it to not build and the maintainer didn't notice, mayhap ask for people to step up and maintain it.
I believe that was the intention of the email sent by Dominique. To either get the maintainers attention or someone to step up to help.
Honestly, if MATE would have been removed, I would have probably been looking for another distro as I use a few things from MATE in my setup, and I do not at all find calling for MATE to be removed from Factory due to one lib being removed from Factory to be a nice thing to do.
You know how to package with OBS well enough so you could also help keeping the software you use up to date. The lib was rightly removed because it's so old that even Debian dropped or will drop support for it. MATE fixed the dependency to it itself recently too. I agree that in general an headsup in this ML before packages are removed would be preferred (and I think this is what normally happens anyway). -- Maurizio Galli (MauG) Xfce Team https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Xfce -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org