Robert Schweikert wrote:
Well, IMHO, the default assumption that the one who submits something to some devel project also wants to comply with the version restrictions in Contrib or Factory is wrong. E.g. I have several packages I needs as deps which I update when I see it fit and file SRs against their devel projects but I absolutely do not want to maintain them in any way as in being responsible for them in some way while having to do more than upstream does (e.g. backporting security fixes).
Well, then maybe the policy needs to be looked at, as Lars pointed out. Following a "simple maintenance model" of bumping the version to get upstream bug fixes would be a lot less work and might be a sufficient relaxation to get more people to contribute packages.
What makes you think that's not the case already? :-) The quite short http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Maintenance_policy has many 'should' but only one 'must'. Also, the policy is still marked as draft and likely incomplete. I don't think there ever was a real discussion about the policy. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org