[packman] fpc (and further ?) packages linkin from api.opensuse.org ?

[Toni]

Am Mittwoch, 25. November 2009 schrieb Adrian Schröter:
> Am Mittwoch, 25. November 2009 09:05:39 schrieb Toni:
> > Am Mittwoch, 25. November 2009 schrieb Adrian Schröter:
> > > Hi Tongra and others,
> > >
> > > thanks a lot for your work on the fpc package. I copied it into the
> > > devel:languages:pascal project of build.opensuse.org to get it working
> > > again (and up to date).
> >
> > sometimes it is a messy package, but the fedora people are often faster
> > and have the needed patches and/or workarounds ...
>
> Okay, there was a guy in IRC called "dbuck" who had also interesst in
> maintaining this package btw. Dunno about his abilities.
>
> > > Pascal suggest that we may should maintain it in build.opensuse.org and
> > > just create a source link in main project of packman build service.
> > >
> > > I would add you as maintainer in the devel:languages:pascal project in
> > > that case.
> > >
> > > What is your opinion about that ?
> >
> > I need this fpc / lazarus packages for a handful of packman packages
> > (cactusjukebox, dargui, easymp3gain, peazip, scrabble, winff, gearhead2,
> > hedgewars). Those programs needs mostly the actual stable versions of fpc
> >  and lazarus, so it should be possible to move this package to OBS.
>
> Okay, you could just create a _link file in your packaman package pointing
> to project="openSUSE.org:devel:languages:pascal" package="fpc".
>
> So you have always the lasted source building in packman.
>
> And if you tell me your user account in build.opensuse.org, I will add you
> to the project there, so you could directly work there.
my user account should be oc2pus, but I never used it since I joined the 
packman team. 

> > > Are there other packages where such a setup would make sense ?
> >
> > lazarus, the IDE for fpc would than make sense too
so lazarus will move too ?

> > Other develpment tools like llvm and jam are also candidates.

<snip> 

> > This leads to the question, why not linking parts of the
> > packman-repsitory to build.opensuse.org ?
>
> This is a policy and legal question. By policy we defined our instance as
> root, so we don't create projects with remote instances (or using the DoD
> feature) there at all.
>
> On the legal side we would have special problems with the packman instance
> I think.
:)
we are not the "bad" boys ....

>
> bye
> adrian



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Toni