Charles Lepple wrote: > 2008/12/15 Stanislav Brabec <[email protected]>: > > Charles Lepple wrote: > > > >> Since we do not have many developers who use the *.spec files > >> (although Arjen keeps the openSUSE directory up-to-date), I am not > >> sure if we are doing the packagers a disservice by shipping old > >> package descriptions. > > > > If you are interested, it is possible to create a repository in the > > openSUSE Build Service and create an "upstream package playground" > > there. You can play with the latest openSUSE/Redhat/Debian spec/deb > > files there. > > Nice, I hadn't seen that before: > > http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service
Yes. Just now, nut is in home:sbrabec:backports, but better repository would be nice. (Few months ago, the discussion about the repo name ended without a consensus and I postponed the decision.) > Arnaud mentioned that the make-package branch detects the > distribution. I admit I haven't read the code completely (most of my > work has been in the trunk as of late), but if so, we could ship > separate files for each major version. > > On the other hand, I'm hearing a number of "don't do that" replies, so > instead, what should we put into the SUSE-specific portion of our > documentation to point people to your SRPMS (as Arjen suggested in > another reply)? I agree with that "don't do that" as well. It should be a task for package maintainers. As NUT is widely accepted by distributors, you will not lose you users. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: [email protected] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966, +49 911 740538747 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
