On Friday 13 August 2010 15:15:28 Nikolaus Rath wrote:
Hi,
I am the upstream author of S3QL (http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/). If I interpret https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=s3ql correctly, then pbleser (pascal.bleser@opensuse.org) has recently created an S3QL package for opensuse.
While I am generally quite happy about this, there are a few things that I would like to have addressed. I tried to mail Pascal about this, but I did not get a response. Since I'm not sure if he is actually the right guy to contact, I'm posting this here again. Hopefully someone will be able to help.
Note that I am not familiar with OpenSUSE at all, so some questions may sound a bit naive to you :-).
- I would really like the package description to include the development status as reported on the homepage and in the source tarball. S3QL is still in beta stage, and I would like to make this very clear in the package as well.
Would it be possible to change the description?
Sure, actually you could do it yourself and submit it back. Just click on the green arrow (the branch symbol) on https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=s3ql&project=filesystems afterwards you can modify the spec file and create a submit request back to the filesystems project. Pascal is usually responsive, but if not someone else in the project can handle your request as well. Or pascal may grant you direct write access there...
- Where will bugs reported against the package show up? If it's on an OpenSUSE bug tracker: is there a way to automatically subscribe me?
The package currently defines pbleser as bugowner to bugzilla.novell.com. We do not have support for other bug trackers yet.
- Is there something like a stable and unstable version of OpenSUSE? If so, where will the S3QL package be in? I would not feel very good about having a beta package in a stable distribution...
openSUSE:Factory is what the next openSUSE release will become. But right now it is just a package in the "filesystems" project.
- Could you provide some instructions on how to get and install the OpenSUSE S3QL package for users of the current stable OpenSUSE? Then I could add these to the S3QL Wiki.
I would just add the repo and install the package : http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems/ welcome ! adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org