On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 4:06 AM Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bernhardout@lsmod.de> wrote:
On 01/07/2019 07.31, Simon Lees wrote:
If you have examples of "bureaucracy" that you think could be reduced or removed this list is the place to discuss them, although this thread was about a bot blocking a certain style rather then causing someone significantly more effort.
I remember some years ago kkaempf told the story how he packaged something to build for both Fedora and openSUSE. Fedora accepted the package, openSUSE didnt - because there were some (possibly openSUSE-only) macros that "could have been used".
So by striving to have uniform, easy-to-maintain packages we get less packages. And less packagers, too.
In the first couple of years of my packaging software for openSUSE (2015-2017), that happened to me too. I almost stopped because of it. It wasn't that my specs were ugly or didn't conform to the style guides or didn't following the informational guidelines. It was that I used cross-distro methods to package software rather than leveraging openSUSE-specific macros. I do this because I'm maintaining almost identical specs across distributions, and it's a lot easier for me to keep things up to date if the mechanics of them are the same across the board. Part of this is also because I rely on my fedmsg and Red Hat Bugzilla notifications from release-monitoring.org to let me know when to update stuff, and then I update everywhere (Fedora, Mageia, and openSUSE). That seems to have leveled off a bit lately, except with Python and Ruby modules. The latter *must* be packaged differently because openSUSE is grossly incompatible with everyone else for Ruby packaging, and the former is because portable packaging is not permitted unless there's something broken with the openSUSE-style singlespec for that package or there's no real point to doing it that way (like if it only works for one version of Python, as an example). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org