Citeren Eric Schirra <ecsos@opensuse.org>:
Am Freitag, 14. Mai 2021, 10:58:50 CEST schrieb Thorsten Kukuk:
On Fri, May 14, Eric Schirra wrote:
And why is it still offered by many other distributions like Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos, Mageia? Why can it still be built and installed there?
Maybe they have maintainers who care about the package?
It's not just some small, let's say unimportant program, but rather a large, important package?
If nobody from the openSUSE community takes care, it doesn't matter if it is a large important or a small unimportant package. And that nobody takes care means, it cannot be an important package. Else there would be somebody who cares.
I understand what you mean. But there is something wrong with openSUSE / SUSE. At some point you won't find a maintainer for apache. Then this is also no longer an important package?
By that same reasoning, indeed. And I see no problem with that. In the hypothetical case that nobody wants to maintain Apache anymore, this either means there is something better that replaces it, or nobody wants to run webservers anymore. Packages come and go.
Sorry I do not understand this approach and, in my opinion, it is the completely wrong way and, especially if it continues like this, it will mean the downfall of openSUSE / SUSE.
It would be the downfall to keep spending time on packages that lack sufficient interest from the community to maintain them.
Because if important packages like cyrus or, hypotetically speaking, Apache are missing, nobody needs or wants them.
Apparently, Cyrus is important to you, but not enough to maintain it. Why do you expect someone else to maintain it for you for free?
How does SUSE make this clear to its enterprise customers? "Sorry, the community no longer has a maintainer, so no cyrus and apache, you just have to take something else". Then at the latest I would switch as a paying customer.
I assume that as long as there are paying customers, packages would be maintained independent from the community. So probably this isn't a package backed/needed by paying customers.