[opensuse-factory] Contrib Status and Package Failures - Drop Candiates
Hi, I have reviewed some of the failures of the Contrib repo on 11.3 and there are a few packages which might be fixed by upgrades to a newer version, some have coding failures which are not tolerated by the newer GCC and some because of missing dependencies. I have fixed a couple of build failures where the fix was simple and obvious. But in other cases, I hope maintainers can provide build fixes which are not too invasive. Some are definite candidates for a drop: xlogmaster - missing gtk-devel dropped workrave - needs kde3sdk - move to KDE3 ? tangerine - needs beagle-devel antiword - needs glib-devel, but in this case antiword is still useful for other packages In addition, these packages fail: https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?arch_i586=1&defaults=0&failed=1&project=openSUSE%3AFactory%3AContrib&repo_openSUSE_11_3=1 The objective of this exercise was to try an avoid bit rot of packages in Contrib which may have been submitted for earlier versions, but now fail on with the latest versions of openSUSE. Thanks, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hi, On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:59:30PM +0200, P Linnell wrote:
Hi,
I have reviewed some of the failures of the Contrib repo on 11.3 and there are a few packages which might be fixed by upgrades to a newer version, some have coding failures which are not tolerated by the newer GCC and some because of missing dependencies.
IMHO it is more important that packages in openSUSE:Factory:Contrib build for Factory - it has been decided that builds for released versions are unsupported.
I have fixed a couple of build failures where the fix was simple and obvious. But in other cases, I hope maintainers can provide build fixes which are not too invasive.
So far the policy with broken packages was that these (and their dependencies) are not copied to openSUSE:$ver:Contrib when such project is branched. On the other hand, I don't see any reason why abandoned packages should stay in openSUSE:Factory:Contrib...
Some are definite candidates for a drop:
xlogmaster - missing gtk-devel dropped
workrave - needs kde3sdk - move to KDE3 ?
tangerine - needs beagle-devel
antiword - needs glib-devel, but in this case antiword is still useful for other packages
No objections from my side, FWIW...
In addition, these packages fail:
The objective of this exercise was to try an avoid bit rot of packages in Contrib which may have been submitted for earlier versions, but now fail on with the latest versions of openSUSE.
Perhaps you might want to resurrect this or something similar: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-contrib/2009-08/msg00261.html Or even better, this thread: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-05/msg00021.html Unfortunately, I have no longer time for Contrib apart from maintaining my own packages. Petr -- Petr Uzel IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
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