Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 10.11.2015 um 18:39 schrieb Richard Brown:
On 10 November 2015 at 18:33, PGNet Dev <pgnet.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
And, what's "improper" about the maintenance of packages currently in the devel & non-home repos?
Devel projects & all non-home repos are not tested. Our distributions are.
Devel proejcts & all non-home repos do not have to follow our packaging policies
Thats the reason for not submitting everything to Factory / Leap
and quality standards. Our distributions do
I do not buy that "quality standards" argument. I hold my packages in e.g. "vdr" and "vdr:plugins" projects to high standard.
That is very good of course. The problem is that it's not verifiable. A package in Factory however gives the promise to adhere to the packaging policies and that the combination with other packages in the distribution doesn't cause havoc. That promise is made by the process a package has to follow in order to get checked in. Ie a number of automated and manual checks and the application of at least four eyes principle. The process does not guarantee that an individual package is bug free of course. If you already adhere to the standards it should be only a small step to Factory inclusion.
But e.g. constant annoyance because I, as the single maintainer of these packages, using absolutely descriptive patch names and patch headers (either by using the git patch or by writing a descriptive patch header) refuse to add an additional patch tag, leads me to not bothering submitting those to Factory.
(I'm not questioning that there are projects like GNOME:Factory or whatever, where people like patch tags and find them useful, but for me they are just annoying).
Correct me if I'm wrong but to the best of my knowledge the patch tagging is still up to the individual package or devel project. It's recommended but not mandatory. The only mandatory policy in that regard is to mention added or removed patches in the .changes file in order to be able to track them. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org