On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 15:01 -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
Have I said that I want the project to "detach" from upstream ? no, what I said that forcing this rule in unpractical unless you have infinite time or a horde of developers (hint.we don't)
This BTW works perfectly fine on linux-only projects...maybe I should just devote my time to such projects only.. ;-)
Having patches in openSUSE is nothing bad / wrong (hint: Factory has > 10'000 at the moment!) but, as you state yourself: we do not have an army of coders: Who does take care of those 10'000 patches? Patches add an additional complexity to a package; besides the 'casual' contributor that is perfectly able to upgrade a package with a new tarball from upstream (with whom we try to have good relationships, as a project!), having all those patches requires every packager to be a crack in coding. Needless to say: excluding the casual contributors is WRONG! It makes our 'army' even smaller. We can't afford that. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org