Hi Oliver,
On Di 12 Mär 2013 10:27:27 CET Oliver Burger wrote:
2013/3/12 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>:
I have no clue at all about RPM. Others have to comment on this.
The problem is, that while (at least almost) all deb-based distros are really Debian-based distros and thus their base systems are quite similar to each other, rpm-based distros aren't. Of course there are similarities between openSUSE, Fedora, Mageia and so on, but there are quite some differences as well. All of those distros use rpm as a package format, but not all are RedHat-based and even those who are (like Mageia by way of Mandrake and Mandriva), they split up so early, that they moved apart.
Yes, that is surely a different thing with RPM based distros. Fully
agreed here.
So for those distros that do provide packages, wouldn't it be better to talk to the package maintainers there and ask them to provide up to date distro specific packages for their distro, when a new x2go version is released? They would still have to be hosted as third party packages since most distros don't allow for version upgrades during the release cycle of a distro, but at least, the problem of having conflicts would be minimized...
That's what I normally do with Debian (not much so far actually, but
it is the plan). Once Debian wheezy is out, I plan (not only for X2Go)
to provide new versions uploaded to Debian unstable->testing with a
little delay in wheezy-backports, so users have a chance to get latest
code via backports for already released stable distro versions.
- people will always complain to the distro's bug tracker and triaging teams have much fun explaining to those, that it's not the distro's fault as the packages in use are not provided by the distro
With Debian, you can only report bugs to packages that exist in Debian. The described experience I do not have here.
Well I have, as in Mageia's bugzilla, you can open a bug report without providing the source rpm package against which the bug report should be opened.
Oh! Please make sure your X2Go related distro bug reports reach us. In
Debian packaging there are many upstream bugs reported in Debian BTS
(not for x2goclient nor pyhoca-* at the moment, though). As package
maintainer you have the duty to forward bug reports upstream whenever
you consider it an upstream problem. We cannot improve X2Go without
this workflow from the distributions (and we will neither look into
all distros' bug trackers!!!).
Thanks+Greets, Mike
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