Hello, On Nov 10 21:59 Luca Beltrame wrote:
The key here is "not officially maintained". E.g., the community KDE team provides extra packages on additional repositories, but they come with *no support* as yes, things may break if upstream introduces changes, or patches have to been rebased, etc.
In fact, that's why we prefer, where possible, to submit updates via the official distro mechanism (maintenance updates).
And that's why at least we're not keen on auto-opening repositories for new distributions. Often packages need adjustments before doing so, and if done automatically this would just break a lot of users' software.
I do not fully understand what you mean. Could you describe it in more detail? What I do not understand: Assume there is a project "something_useful" where packages build currently for "Leap 42" and "Tumbleweed". At some time in the future "Leap 43" starts to be made and an initial "Leap_43_alpha" respository exists. By default the "something_useful" packages are not built for "Leap_43_alpha". Now I wonder how the maintainers of "something_useful" could try out if their packages could work at all in the upcoming "Leap 43"? Do they only local builds only on their local computers? Now in contrast assume the "something_useful" packages would be built for "Leap_43_alpha": What goes wrong for "Leap 42" and "Tumbleweed" users of the "something_useful" packages? As far as I know those users would not get packages built for "Leap_43_alpha" installed when they have the "something_useful" repository enabled on their "Leap 42" and "Tumbleweed" systems. But when the "something_useful" packages would be built for "Leap_43_alpha" the maintainers of "something_useful" could see early if their "something_useful" packages fail to build for "Leap_43_alpha". Additionally venturous users who have "Leap_43_alpha" installed (e.g. in a virtual machine only for testing) could download ready-made "something_useful" packages for "Leap_43_alpha" and provide feedback to the maintainers of "something_useful" how far their packages work under "Leap_43_alpha". Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org