On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:26:37 +0800
Marguerite Su
Hi, Ben & listmates,
Here's the case I ran into (bnc#821877):
Our unzip can't detect CJK charsets, so it unzips them into folders like "口口口", which can't be opened by file managers and impossible to delete by rm command. So most of the users will consider this as a blocker.
The cause of this problem is that we use librcc to detect charset in zip formats(librcc use dynamic engines for this task, so it masks other functions like iconv on purpose, which means you can't apply _any_ further chaset patch besides librcc). But our librcc is built without libguess support, which is responsible for CJK charset detection.
Well, although libguess has been landed in devel:libraries:c_c++ for a while, it didn't get submitted into Factory, no need to mention released versions.
For new version like 13.1, the fix will be easy: submit libguess, fix librcc, done.
But for maintenance, I can fix librcc, then it requires libguess. Our maintenance policy doesn't seem to allow brand _new_ packages. Any exceptions?
Greetings
Marguerite
I'd love to see where this policy is written down, although in general terms it makes sense not adding random packages after release. I'd vote for an exception, with the provision that libguess gets accepted into Factory properly. Then a backported package could be added to the updates channel. Thanks, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org