Pascal Bleser wrote:
[...] - how likely is it that we are going to patch an upstream java library or application ourselves, rather than updating it to an upstream release that fixes the issue ? * very few in this project are fluent with java * is it an issue to push a newer version to fix rather than backporting changes/patches for those packages ?
Well, just recently we had the case where a fix was only a few lines but the package couldn't be rebuilt from java source and upstream only offered a major version update. That sucks. It's embarrassing if a package is flagged as free software but you can't actually fix it. If at all exceptions should be granted only on a case by case basis after thorough review. Also such packages should not be put in the oss tree. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org