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On 06/28/2016 01:21 AM, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> On lundi, 27 juin 2016 16.37:17 h CEST [email protected] wrote:
>> 27. Jun 2016 07:49 by [email protected]:
>>> If you are at the stage of building it from zero, why not
>>> trying to branch the existing package on OBS, try to update it,
>>> and submit it back to the repository ?
>> 
>> Becuase for me the firewall package is a high priority and
>> important to be an official maintained one.  I need to have a
>> package to depend on.  I think it may be true for others also.
>> 
>> Shorewall project is very excellent in maintenance.  The
>> discussions and bug fixing are very alive!  So it is obvious that
>> the Shorewall project holds the shorewall application in high
>> priority.
>> 
>> For Opensuse although it is the distribution I use for now the
>> shorewall application does not seem a priority to the project.
>> It is not an official package for a long time.  I think there was
>> never even one version 5 ?
>> 
>> With these new packages from Tom Eastep there is now something
>> official that has high priority focus.  I will learn and test
>> them and provide the feedback here.
>> 
>> If it becomes as I truly hope the accepted practice to make these
>> rpms inside the Shorewall project, I do not see the advantage of
>> doing it separately in a nonofficial 'home' project at Opensuse.
> 
> It was not question about making it available in "home" project. 
> The idea is to have it inside the main oss repository but for that 
> the procedure is, branch actual 4.x version in server:security 
> update it, submit it back to server:security it will then move to
> Factory and Tumbleweed, we can eventually even think about making
> an update for Leap.
> 
> We will always welcome contributions.
> 
> 

And I prefer to have contributors maintain distribution-specific
packages rather than having them included in the releases from
shorewall.net.

- -Tom
- -- 
Tom Eastep        \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who
Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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