[Denemo-devel] Fwd: Re: Help Needed

[Edgar Aichinger]

oops , I didn't reply to the list...
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Betreff: Re: [Denemo-devel] Help Needed
Datum: Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2013, 19:29:55
Von: Edgar Aichinger <address@hidden>
An: address@hidden

Am Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2013, 17:28:00 schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 18:13 +0100, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2013, 16:43:10 schrieb Richard Shann:
> > > > OBS (created by openSUSE but called Open Build Service now) offers a 
> > > > convenient
> > > > way for installing these generated binary/noarch packages (noarch is 
> > > > just a 
> > > > special case for packages that contain only human readable files and 
> > > > thus can 
> > > > be read on any architecture, like e.g. init scripts, and the user 
> > > > usually
> > > > isn't even presented this detail when choosing something to install).
> > > > There's a powerful search engine at http://search.opensuse.org/ - 
> > > > choose Build 
> > > > Service in the menu on the left, type denemo to the search bar and it 
> > > > comes up 
> > > > with a list of all available built and published packages, for any 
> > > > distro they 
> > > > exist for.
> > > 
> > > Am I reading this correctly when it only says "unstable" for denemo for
> > > all the versions of openSUSE. And does that mean that nothing "stable"
> > > is available to users of that distro? I have a similar problem when I
> > > visit the Debian site, it gives some 0.9 version as the version
> > > available in all versions including "testing".
> > 
> > I think in this context unstable simply means "not part of this official 
> > openSUSE release, but being built as part of some special 
> > project or a user's home project on OBS we're not responsible for".
> 
> Is that to say official openSUSE releases have never included Denemo?
> (As no version is listed under any release number ...)

Yes. At least for the listed versions that seems true, and if there had been 
a official package i'd not bothered creating my own one, I rather would have 
sent bug reports to the package maintainer...  OBS users are encouraged to join
forces and submit their changes back when they branch a package. for popular 
packages there's usually one "main development" location, people branch this, 
add their changes and when it works send a submit request back to the "main" 
location. the maintainer then decides to accept or reject. These are the rules 
openSUSE try to establish on "their" build service, note that the OBS itself is
free software, so you could also install it at your own machine/network, run 
your own instance and use it how ever you want.

Edgar

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> Richard
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