[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

[Thomas Backlund]

13.09.2012 23:37, Damian Ivanov skrev:
> There are lots of good reasons to switch to OBS
>     - OBS has a web interface ( lots of ppl including me do lot of
> the spec file editing, patching etc. using the web interface from
> windows e.g from work PC / mobile platforms)

I'd rather have developers that actually use the distro they build for 
and test the fixes themselves too.

>     - In OBS it's very easy to fix a package for everyone, if you have
> an account at the OBS server, just branch it, fix it, submit it (and
> wait for approval)


And if you have a mga packager account you can do the same on our 
system, if not you can file a bug or send/suggest patches too...


>     - Package that are on build.opensuse.org can be linked to, inter
> instance linking, copying, aggregating (with enough user permission)
> is no problem

-ENOTCOMPUTE

> - OBS is already used by more than 33,327 confirmed developers.
> - Mandriva is also considering it.
> - You would do something for inter-distro collaboration (and well we
> can discuss this, OBS is the most advanced build system)
>

Well, inter-distro collaboration happends without OBS too...

>> Well, I dont see stuff doing hacks like "Obsoletes/Provides gtk3" to
>> replace the real upstream packages ever being allowed in official repos.
> We can remove the obsoletes, it would be just the gtk3 fork of ubuntu
> in the repo alternatively installable.
>

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Thomas