Quoting Michal Kubecek
Well, I did, out of curiosity. At the moment, the Factory kernel source package has 230 patches for a 77MB (565 MB uncompressed) tarball. The Factory systemd source package has 347 patches for a 2.5MB (28 MB uncompressed) tarball. The ratio of ~30 ( = (347 / 28) / (230 / 565)) between those is IMHO kind of disturbing.
if THIS is the metric to improve the quality of our packages, then that's easy: I'll just submit a new package that has all diffs merged into one patch, making the package entirely unmaintainable.. but hey: your metric is much better, as it's only one patch left. I hope you understand on how ridiculous that statement is. AsS for systemd with patches: the maintainer prefers to backport fixes to the version of systemd we currently have. Almost all patches come from upstream. The maintainer for now decided to stay on systemd version 210 (from February 2014) wheras upstream has produced releases up to version 216 (latest from 19 Aug). The beauty of this? It's the maintainers free choice to provide what he feels is maintainable and gives the distribution the highest gain. If you feel the version number means a lot: offer assistance in updating. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org