On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:30:59AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
some of the pain could be eased if we had an updated rpm package for
older versions (supported older versions, i mean, not 7.2) that levels
the packaging macros to 9.2
Shouldn't difficult. We've put out rpm macro updates before. And, FYI, the
good to hear about this.
oldest version we support now is 9.0 (8.2 went EOL two days ago). The
exception to that is MNF which is based on 8.2.
well, maybe someone installing contribs on a firewall deserves what it
implies.
Of course, the macros are just part of it. If a spec is tuned, say, for a
new version of cyrus-sasl in cooker, the maintainer has to be aware that
what was required for the old version has to then be put in as conditionals.
Not all maintainers do this.
This is a reason for me advocating a split.
Btw, some packages in contrib are very well packaged and maintained,
some are playground for new features and some just suck, maybe splitting
contrib in sections based on package quality and starting to maintain
updates only for the stable part of contrib could be a start.
I don't think splitting contribs further is the answer... I really don't.
How is that any different from the current situation? Now we have main and
contribs... you want to turn that into main, contribs-stable,
contribs-possibly-works, and contribs-junk? =)
Well I am trying to (and possibly failing) to think of a possible
solution to this problem.
some stuff in contrib is useful and not having it updated is a bad idea
moving everything to main is a bad idea as well
since contrib is not maintained mandrakesoft does not wish to publish it
as a feature
contrib is full of junk (super freeswan, is a particularly obnoxiuous
peice of junk), i do not mind having junk in contrib for cooker, i was
thinking that on splitting contrib for a stable distribution junk could
be left out, and maybe the rest can be maintained to a smaller degree
than how main is maintained, say just security updates. Say only for
latest contrib version.
regards,
L.
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