Juergen Weigert wrote: > On Oct 25, 07 11:51:50 +0400, Nikolay Derkach wrote: >> ?? ??????, 25/10/2007 ?? 01:43 +0200, Pascal Bleser ??????????: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> When I look at the "Team" presented on http://rpm5.org I notice several >>> people involved in QA for several distributions, but no one for >>> openSUSE/SLE*. >>> Lack of time, lack of interest, technical reasons ? >> There was a news at linux.com, it claimed that Novell was going to >> concentrate its efforts on RPMv4 development. >> "Novell has joined Red Hat in the rpm.org project, while Mandriva, cAos, >> and PLD have decided to work with Johnson's rpm5.org effort." [*] >> >> Anyway it would be nice to hear the official proof/disproof from >> developers. > > This article sounds strangely affirmative. > I am not aware of any decision to ignore Jeff Johnson.
Me neither. But I'm not sitting on the same floor as MLS ;) > Actually, I remember that mls and jeff always have > extensive conversations, whenever they meet. :-) From what I can remember from IRL discussions with Jeff is that the main goals of RPM 5 were actually to put the disparate and parallel efforts of the different distributions back in common. Which is why I'm wondering Novell/SUSE isn't involved. > Anybody to set up an rpm5 buildservice repo? SUSE does have its specific ways to use RPM that differ from other distributions, most notably not using arch coloring but -32bit subpackages instead (for biarch) [1]. I don't know how far it translates into RPM codebase patches or just conventions. Might be quite tricky to have a properly functioning RPM 5.x for openSUSE somewhere if it requires the former, especially if they're not merged and properly integrated by upstream. [1] not that I'm saying it's bad -- obviously, openSUSE is light years ahead of almost all other distributions in terms of biarch support so.. it can't be that bad ;) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v http://www.fosdem.org http://opensuse.org
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