[packman] speechnote for packman

[Giacomo Comes]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 08:41:03AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:58:31 -0400 Giacomo Comes <gcomes at gmx.com>:
>
> > Is is my understanding that using prebuild binaries is a NO GO in obs.
>
> This is true just for SUSE Linux release projects. For every other
> project all what matters is the license.

It is my experience it doesn't work that way.
Once I packaged a java program for the science project.
I submitted it and it was rejected because the java code was not build
from the source.
I resubmitted it, this time building the program from the source, but
it was rejected again because the build process required the Oracle
java SDK.
Finally the program ended up in home:gcomes.obs:science

> If only Tumbleweed or Slowroll provides the required versions, so be it.
> I think noone seriously expects the latest technology to be available in Leap.

Well, I am a system administrator and I use only Leap for me and my
users. You cannot imagine the headache you get trying keep stable a
rolling release distribution. Just to make you an example, in the past
weeks it was not possible to upgrade to kernel 6.11 and have at the same
time installed the modules vhba-kmp and virtualbox-kmp.
Right now, forget about installing python311-numba. It's 3 weeks since
this is the case and who know how many weeks more we have to wait in
order to have it installable again.
And since the last tumbleweed update, it's goodbye telegram-desktop.

Besides, if you need HW acceleration for NVIDIA or AMD forget about
tumbleweed.

Giacomo

> Unless the required change for ffmpeg breaks other use cases, submit the
> change to the main ffmpeg package, to avoid yet another outdated copy of it.
>
> Olaf