[packman] Package update workflow?

[Cristian Morales Vega]

On 4 May 2012 16:48, Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser at opensuse.org> wrote:
>  discussing it on the list first: there are many issues with
>  the way the maintainers of multimedia:libs and multimedia:apps
>  on build.o.o handle their packages, I've mentioned that in the
>  past (they don't care about older distros, replace foo-devel
>  with pkgconfig(foo) which doesn't work on SLE or Evergreen,
>  they carelessly rename packages which breaks a lot of other
>  things (e.g. taglib -> libtag), etc..., and generally speaking
>  they don't see their packages are linked in Packman, hence
>  they don't see the side effects of changes to their packages,
>  and that doesn't work too well)

I could try to create the packages
- rpm-Evergreen_11.1
- rpm-Evergreen_11.2
- rpm-SLE-11
- rpm-SLE-11-SP2

branching from its original packages but adding
- a default definition of build root
- a definition of the make_install macro

(With some luck it would be just a matter of putting the definitions
in /usr/lib/rpm/macros)


Then, when someone finds a problem with a pkgconfig() buildrequire,
please don't patch it but add a Substitute entry in the Essentials
prjconf.


I think we could have the packages from
multimedia:libs/multimedia:apps with these things building without
problems quite easily.

To say the truth I first thought about this months ago. But I never
tried only because it could easily happen that something breaks in the
first tries... Just another case of "in order to not step on anyone's
toes... we don't do the work".