Hi all, There was a small discussion among Application:Geo project members about this issue today. I was asked to bring this issue to this list so that we can all discuss it. The problem: Currently it is forbidden to package binaries in OBS without building from source code. This causes issues when we need to build very complex Java applications or web applications (eg like Geoserver, Geonetwork, JOSM etc). In Java it is nearly impossible to build everything without bringing jar binaries in the game at some point (eg maven depends on itself to build). If we want to do this without binaries it would take a very large effort for many packages and it would be a dependency nightmare for packagers. On the other hand, the build.o.o instance has open source and transparency in mind, so the policy to request sources and not binaries is fair. The above points are a summary of the discussion so far not just my opinion. I would like to hear what everyone thinks and how we can make Java packaging easier for us. Regards, Angelos -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org