Hello, On Thu, 03 Nov 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Someone, probably David C. R. here recently asked for that. Thus:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dnh/openSUSE_11.4/x86_64/cal... [..] Are you (or anyone else) planning to push calc to a devel project and
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:02 PM, David Haller <dnh@opensuse.org> wrote: then to factory.
Seems like a nice tool but I'm trying to stick to packages I can push via security. It gets to be a pain when I have packages I want to work together spread around various devel projects.
'Twas an ad-hoc package, so, I need feedback! calc seems mature and builds cleanly, so I see no reason why not to push it towards Factory. As an aside, I don't have the need, as I use bc, but I'm always up for packaging a mature program which just suits someone better. I'd be willing to "maintain" the package except for looking for new releases / bugfix releases[1]. I just don't have the time to look. So, if you are willing to notify me of new releases / security related problems / patches etc., I'd be willing. Oh, I also am willing to share the duty and make you and dcr maintainers, and coach you along if it's not a simple version update of e.g. "make '.4' a '.5'" in one single place in the .spec ;) You'd be surprised how much simple, tedious work is needed to keep a package "up-to-date" once you have a working .spec. I'd say (with exceptions): >>95% is to keep an eye out for security/bug-issues or feature releases, both of which you can usually just "drop in" by simply changing the "version" in the .spec and maybe adapt some filename or so (but that should be a marco e.g. the soname of a lib). Or add the patch. Trouble is, when the "how to build" of a package changes. It's not often. But when you grab a new package or a package changes the build system, or the architecture of stuff, that's when there's major work on a .spec needed. -dnh [1] well, I might, at random -- Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org