2017-07-31 15:31 GMT+02:00 Walter Fey <dl8...@darc.de>: > Dear Packman Team
Hi Walter > Thank you for the access to PMBS. > > I added some hamradio related packages which are not available in the > official openSUSE distributions to my home project/subproject > "home:dl8fcl:hamradio". One package "gpredict" is available in Leap 42.3 as > an old version. It is a fork of the package I was maintaining for a long > time. All these and more packages were maintained and updated by me at the > openSUSE Build Service, project hamradio. Do you mean to say that all the spec files and patches have been written by you, only you, and do not include content from other spec files that are under a different copyright ? > Meanwhile I do not update this openSUSE project any longer and like to > submit these packages to a project in PMBS from were they could be > published. You didn't exactly disclose much about why you want to move those to Packman, that only came out later. That's a bit of a stinky move, Walter, to remain polite. > There is already one hamradio package "xdemorse" in "Extra". Meanwhile I > submitted an update for "xdemorse" which was accepted and published. > > So "Extra" could be also a good place for these new packages. Or not, Extra was and still is more of a legacy thing, that stemmed from a time where Packman had way more packages, when there wasn't an openSUSE Build Service where non-SUSE-employees could contribute to the packages. When Detlef and I reorganized the whole thing by setting up an OBS instance for Packman and took the time to think of a structure, triage and move the packages we had in our own package build system to the Packman OBS, we shoved things that were in Packman but not available elsewhere into "Extra". In the mean time, a lot of those packages have been made available on the openSUSE OBS independently, and there is no reason for us to host those at Packman anymore. Furthermore, a lot of packages have been moved from Packman into the openSUSE OBS, too, including a lot of multimedia stuff. The goal of Packman is clearly not to have an ever growing "Extra" repository, *especially* if there is no reason to not host it on the openSUSE Build Service instance (because more people can contribute there, and because it has more resources). The goal has rather been to move everything that can to the openSUSE Build Service, not the opposite. > For two of my packages it would be helpful to contact somebody of the team > directly and discuss some items before submitting them. Big -1 from me, if my opinion and experience still holds any value. _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list Packman@links2linux.de http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman