
On 09/30/2010 02:33 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
On 29.9.2010 21:17, Dave Plater wrote:
I've had problems submitting a package fix to KDE:Extra before but in that case the maintainers reply was rather rude that issue was simply bad communication and was resolved and that particular maintainer accepted my second submit attempt of KTrafficAnalyzer pointing out that there wasn't a Url: in the spec file and asking me to fix it. I decided to patch the released tarball to svn 44 and submit that along with the fixed spec file but alas the first anti subversion maintainer caught the request and declined it. I was under the assumption that I'm helping to make openSUSE a better distribution but my encounters with KDE:Extra have made me think that that particular repository is an ego circus [...]
Hi David,
I think what you describe is just an issue of communication, I wouldn't draw any conclusions here. Yes the policy or best current practice is to package released versions, but if the latest release does not work at all and the fix is only in svn, then it makes sense to break the policy. But what you should definitely do is to document why are you doing this, e.g. put into the *.changes file and the submit request message:
- Updated to svn rev 1234, because the latest release segfaults on startup. * Includes several other bugfixes * Adds <feature 1> and <feature 2> * Improves <feature 3>
If your request gets declined _again_, _then_ there is really something wrong with the maintainer team :).
Just my two cents, I'm not involved in KDE:Extra. Michal
Yes I wasn't in the best of moods after submitting the new package and maybe I wasn't polite enough explaining to the first maintainer that the release crashes and the submitted svn package works. I wrote this email after the package had been accepted by another maintainer who pointed out that there wasn't a url in the spec file. When I submitted the update with url the first maintainer caught the request and blindly declined it. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org