[openstack-dev] [packaging] Adding packaging as an OpenStack project

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Jun 10 12:20:45 UTC 2015


Excerpts from Matthias Runge's message of 2015-06-10 12:29:45 +0200:
> On 10/06/15 12:07, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On 10 June 2015 at 20:12, Matthias Runge <mrunge at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Since our software is to be consumed by packages, shouldn't the packages
> >> project consider itself to be responsible for global requirements? I.e.
> >> checking, if requirements are packageable, if versions fit, etc.
> >
> > I think we welcome input from distribution maintainers on
> > global-requirements; especially for new packages.
> >
> > But, the responsibility is ultimately a team effort: all the
> > components of openstack have to meet the operator/distributor
> > co-installability requirement. If one project has a minimum version of
> > X, its not possible for other projects to have a max version of < X
> > otherwise we're not coinstallable. This works both ways of course.
> 
> My wording was not that good here.
> 
> I know, some distro packagers are already looking at changes, but maybe 
> this could be improved, i.e. intensified? It was more about: giving this 
> more basic openstack effort a home in a project.

Given the history of lack of interest, I would want to see a significant
increase in reviews from that team before giving them control of the
repository.

Doug



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