On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:45:24PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
I'm about to submit 6 new small packages: libevt, libevtx, libregf, libmsiecf, liblnk, libvshadow.
My basic question is what devel project I should send these to and if I should leave them as 6 discrete projects, or maybe try to combine them somehow.
I've thought about just pushing all 6 to devel:libraries If that is a good choice let me know.
== details
All of them are from the same upstream author and have the same structure, all hosted at the same place etc.
The specfiles are all very similar. For each one there is a c library created, a python bindings sub-package and a end-user tools sub-package (eg. evttools, etc.) with a couple simple tools each.
My use case is a security tool that uses the python bindings of all 6, so in theory I could put them there, but it seems like the wrong place to me, but the "tools" sub-projects would all actually qualify as security tools for a forensic examiner. (I already have 15 or 20 forensic tools in the security project, so maybe it is time for me to create a security:dfir sub-project and just put everything in there?)
I would not create an another sub-devel-project if there are not stronger reason that I have no idea where to put my package. Please note that devel projects does not make any sense for most of of packages we have in openSUSE, therefor feel free to submit them into security, or utilities or devel:openSUSE:Factory, or whatever reasonable existing project you will find. Regards Michal Vyskocil