Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2011 schrieb Pascal Bleser: > Yes, I've kept libcaca building in our OBS for SLE_11 and > Evergreen_11.1
Ok. > > [...] > > > > Please let me know if there is a good reason of having the > > > latest in our repository (other than the above, in which case I > > > will only build libcaca for 11.1 and SLE_11 :)). > > > > If adding the package to our repository why not building for all > > SUSE versions? It's not easy to explain why openSUSE 11.1 users > > will get 0.99.beta17 and openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 users should use > > 0.99.beta16. And it doesn't make bug hunting easier to take care of > > the different bugs in the different versions. > > That is one option/point-of-view, yes. > > On the other hand, I personally believe that it is much nicer if > people who add the Packman repository don't > * suddenly get an upgrade of libcaca, which might break packages > that are not provided by Packman (although the "vendor lock" > should prevent most people from falling into that trap) You remember my curl package which was incompatible with YaST... In this case I don't think it will make any problem. > * have to upgrade libcaca when they install our xine, MPlayer, > ... packages when there is no real need for it (our packages > all build just fine agains the libcaca versions that are > shipped by the distros -- except for 11.1) I think most peoply simply press the ok button to fullfill the dependencies and don't think about what happens. But I have no problem to build libcaca only for the oldies. > I had a look at the changelog for 0.99beta17 and there are very, > very few bug fixes in it, almost everything is just cosmetic or > changes on subpackages we neither build nor use (java bindings, > php bindings, ...). That's right. > I mean, if there is really a good reason for us to force an > upgrade of a dependency (e.g. better performance, bugfixes, ...) > then, of course, it's a totally different story and I agree that > we should provide the newer version. > But I don't think it's the case here. I think 99% of the users will never use a videoplayer with caca- textoutput on console. For myselve I've done it a view times for testing, but for nothing else. It's not realy usefull. So it's completely unimportend even if we would build the mediaplayers on opneSUSE 11.1 and SLES without caca. -- Machs gut | http://www.iivs.de/schwinde/buerger/tremmel/ Manfred | http://packman.links2linux.de/ _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
