Czech Packagers Meeting minutes 2009-03-31

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Present: sbrabec, mkudlvasr, puzel, pgajdos, matejcik,

prusnak, anicka, mseben, mhrusecky, mvyskocil,

nadvornik

1. Dropped repository

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We agreed on Dropped repository. It should contain some sources of packages

dropped from our distribution. This packages will not build against any

repository. To Dropped repository should go someone who would like to restore

old package.

2. Opensuse Buildservice

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We all should use Opensuse Buildservice tools. For example submitting

noncritical patches via submit requests to devel project instead of

submitting them directly into factory (either via osc or via yapt).

Maintainer of package may want to decline patch for various reasons. For

example maintainer can be in the middle of version update which includes

patch you want to submit. Also submitting patches directly into factory

may broke devel project and other projects linked against it. And these

projects may contain several nontrivial already prepared patches. Also

using internal tools and not using devel projects makes it more

difficult for community members to help us with development.

4. Packaging guidelines

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We need HELP with merging our existing SUSE Package Conventions into Fedora

Packaging Guidelines. See

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2009-03/msg00042.html

5. Status reports

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anicka

- perl modules: update to current versions

mhrusecky

- working on MySQL upgrade in OBS

mseben

openmotif : bnc#486469 fixed and submitted openmotif21-libs

zlib : bnc#490107 problem with zlib license

virtualbox-ose : fixed libXalan-c-devel dependency and working on

bnc#484333

mvyskocil

- test of icedtea bug#264, updated icedtea to 1.4.1 in Java:openjdk6 and

Factory (sr#8626)

pgajdos

* diffstat update to 1.47 (works with patch ".rej" files)

prusnak

- psi: fixed problems with Qt 4.5, enable whiteboarding and MPRIS

- reviewing GSoC applications

- porting Packaging Guidelines

- cleaned gammu/wammu spec in upstream, so it could be used in Factory

without changes

- installed instance of OBS for hacking purposes

puzel

- looking for useful dropped packages

- make wt build again

- investigate and reassign #460787 - zypper lr crashes in libzypp

sbrabec

openct, pcsc-cyberjack: Fixing smart card packages (bnc#438131, bnc#413284,

bnc#304149) and backporting hal to security:chipcard (bnc#492427, bnc#492431).