Hello, On Feb 14 21:48 Michal Kubecek wrote:
One of the big problems of openSUSE from the point of view of people who do not do package maintenance as their everyday job and can give it only limited amount of time is the hobby of some distribution maintainers (or whatever the correct term is) to continuously invent more and more checks forcing said maintainers to rewrite their specfiles all the time (and study how first - which is not trivial in some cases).
...and this is another problem. Unnecessarily strict checks in Factory enforce new constructions which do not work in older (still supported) distributions. Results either in unreadable specfiles full of %if's or in maintainers resigning on building on anything but Factory. Neither should be considered desirable, AFAICS.
Amen! Cf. https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2017-07/msg00079.html where I had written (excerpt): -------------------------------------------------------------------- [obs-service-format_spec_file is moving comments around] In general it seems to be good when openSUSE RPM spec files are in compliance with a reasonable openSUSE standard. But on the other hand enforcing it could be a hindrance for openSUSE contributors to use ready-made RPM spec files from whatever upstream projects also for openSUSE RPMs with only some minor openSUSE-specific adaptions to get software easily built also for openSUSE. What is more important for openSUSE: Be open for others (and accept diversity) or be uniform (to make maintenance easier)? -------------------------------------------------------------------- and cf. https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2017-07/msg00095.html where I had written (excerpt): -------------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll about Url vs URL in RPM preamble] What is the benefit for openSUSE users and contributors to enforce a special openSUSE uniformity for spelling things like "Url vs URL" regardless that both are valid? I need to repeat myself: What is more important for openSUSE: Be open and accept diversity or enforce uniformity? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org