[opensuse-science] Non-building packages in Science and Education to be removed
Currently there are a large number of unmaintained packages that fail to build in the Science and Education repositories. They haven't been updated in years and fail to build on at least Tumbleweed, and in many cases other releases as well. There was recently a request to remove these. I will deny the requests in order to give people a chance to fix the packages. Anyone interested in any of these packages please fix them in the next 4 weeks. Any packages that are still not working on Monday, January 7 will be removed. Here is a list of failing packages: Education / HeeksART Education / HeeksCAD Education / HeeksCNC Education / MultiplicationStation Education / TuxMathScrabble Education / VUE Education / chemtool Education / fet Education / fpc-cross-i386-linux Education / freeon Education / fzclips Education / galib Education / gnome-chemistry-utils Education / graphthing Education / gtkextra2 Education / italc Education / itext Education / jMemorize Education / k3dsurf Education / kdeedu3 Education / kiwi-config-openSUSE-Edu Education / klogic Education / klogoturtle Education / koctave Education / krecipes Education / kseg Education / ksociograma Education / lenmus Education / lomse Education / moodle3_2 Education / mpqc Education / nanoxml Education / noteedit Education / open-axiom Education / opensuse-education-release Education / php5-pear-xml_parser Education / piklab Education / planets Education / plutimikation Education / release-notes-edu Education / score-reading-trainer Education / skelcd-education-desktop Education / sonic-pi Education / squidguard-blacklists Education / tablix Education / tagainijisho Education / xaralx Education / xlogo science / ASL science / CGM science / OpenVSP science / UGENE science / alberta science / arrayfire science / babel science / boxshade science / clipper science / code_saturne science / coot science / dolfin science / emboss-explorer science / engrid science / forge science / gbench science / glemon science / gnome-chemistry-utils science / ised science / keepnote science / libadjoint science / libmesh science / moab science / molekel science / mshr science / openms science / openvibe science / prank science / pyqpcr science / silo science / slepc science / superlu_dist science / tao science / taucs science / treeviewx science / vrpn science / xdrawchem science / zoltan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-science+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-science+owner@opensuse.org
On Monday 2018-12-10 16:27, Todd Rme wrote:
Currently there are a large number of unmaintained packages that fail to build in the Science and Education repositories. They haven't been updated in years and fail to build on at least Tumbleweed, and in many cases other releases as well.
There was recently a request to remove these. I will deny the requests in order to give people a chance to fix the packages.
osc review add -U yourself 123456id That way the request could stay open for a while without having to act on it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-science+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-science+owner@opensuse.org
Hi On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:27:09 -0500 Todd Rme wrote:
Currently there are a large number of unmaintained packages that fail to build in the Science and Education repositories. They haven't been updated in years and fail to build on at least Tumbleweed, and in many cases other releases as well.
There was recently a request to remove these. I will deny the requests in order to give people a chance to fix the packages. Anyone interested in any of these packages please fix them in the next 4 weeks. Any packages that are still not working on Monday, January 7 will be removed. Here is a list of failing packages:
Can you please explain why you want to delete packages that: * are already build disabled - and should not harm anything? * have no other "upstream" than the Education repository? * are not maintained by you? Is this kind of an ego trip that you need to do now, when everybody else wants to enjoy his vacation? I'm still the official maintainer of many of the packages you mentioned in the Education repository, and I explained[1] nearly a year ago that I have not enough time left to carry about those packages at the moment, but I'm happy to help someone else to take over and bring them into a working state again. For those packages were I know that they are not needed at the moment (like the meta packages used in the past to build the li-f-e media), I "disabled build" since a long time. For others, it might just be time to fix them (as you have enough time to care about the list you provided, I think this is what you want, right?). But this needs time. So what's your motivation behind your Email ? Blaming others that have no time to fix their packages? - Nice idea, but I don't know what the destructive step of deleting/destroying others work is good for. So please explain... Or do you want to get kicked out of the Education repository because of your destructive ideas? with kind regards, Lars -- [1]: https://news.opensuse.org/2018/01/27/the-future-of-opensuse-education/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-science+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-science+owner@opensuse.org
Dne pátek 28. prosince 2018 22:17:45 CET, Lars Vogdt napsal(a): > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:27:09 -0500 Todd Rme wrote: > > Currently there are a large number of unmaintained packages that fail > > to build in the Science and Education repositories. They haven't been > > updated in years and fail to build on at least Tumbleweed, and in many > > cases other releases as well. > > There was recently a request to remove these. I will deny the > > requests in order to give people a chance to fix the packages. Anyone > > interested in any of these packages please fix them in the next 4 > > weeks. Any packages that are still not working on Monday, January 7 > > will be removed. > > Here is a list of failing packages: > Can you please explain why you want to delete packages that: > * are already build disabled - and should not harm anything? > * have no other "upstream" than the Education repository? > * are not maintained by you? > Is this kind of an ego trip that you need to do now, when everybody > else wants to enjoy his vacation? > I'm still the official maintainer of many of the packages you mentioned > in the Education repository, and I explained[1] nearly a year ago that I > have not enough time left to carry about those packages at the moment, > but I'm happy to help someone else to take over and bring them into a > working state again. > For those packages were I know that they are not needed at the moment > (like the meta packages used in the past to build the li-f-e media), I > "disabled build" since a long time. For others, it might just be time > to fix them (as you have enough time to care about the list you > provided, I think this is what you want, right?). But this needs time. Well, my packaging experience is zero. My Linux experience is considerable, but I'm not programmer. As a biologist, I'd like to see some packages included. From the original list namely ugene. And some more, of course. I wonder if I'd be able (by means of skills and time/effort required) to package software I need for my work (some is not very well written). Well, now I just compile what I need. So... If we consider software with simple (or no) dependences, I use to follow steps in README - (./congifue), make, (make install); is packaging in OBS significantly more difficult...? -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/ https://trapa.cz/
On Friday 2018-12-28 22:17, Lars Vogdt wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:27:09 -0500 Todd Rme wrote:
Currently there are a large number of unmaintained packages that fail to build in the Science and Education repositories. They haven't been updated in years and fail to build on at least Tumbleweed, and in many cases other releases as well.
There was recently a request to remove these. I will deny the requests in order to give people a chance to fix the packages. Anyone interested in any of these packages please fix them in the next 4 weeks. Any packages that are still not working on Monday, January 7 will be removed. Here is a list of failing packages:
Can you please explain why you want to delete packages that: * are already build disabled - and should not harm anything?
Moreover, having packages visible in `osc se --pa gap` means a potential contributor will not need to start spec files from scratch again — which is what would otherwise happen if we were to delete build-disabled packages from develprjs now). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-science+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-science+owner@opensuse.org
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