[packman] Leap 16.0 and switch to gitea

[Eric Schirra]

Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025, 19:59:04 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Luigi Baldoni:
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
> From: "Henne Vogelsang" <hvogel at hennevogel.de>
> 
> > What is it you are missing? Using branch in the PMBS UI?
> 
> If so, what am I doing wrong here?
> 
>  `$ osc -A https://pmbs-api.links2linux.de linkpac
> openSUSE.org:openSUSE:Leap:16.0 ffmpeg-7 home:Aloysius:branches:Essentials
> 
>  `Server returned an error: HTTP Error 404: remote error  package 'ffmpeg-7'
> does not exist in project 'openSUSE Leap 16.0'` `remote error: package
> 'ffmpeg-7' does not exist in project 'openSUSE Leap 16.0'`
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
> > From: "Eric Schirra" <eric at schirra.net>
> > 
> > Please don't do that. I absolutely advise against it, unless it's
> > absolutely necessary. The git story is terrible. It doesn't really work.
> > For me as a packager, it offers absolutely no added value. It just seems
> > to involve a lot more effort. There is no useful documentation. I tried
> > it two or three times according to the documentation, but I kept getting
> > error messages.
> I share your frustration and I've experienced the same problems. So far I've
> been uploading my changes via web. But I see no alternative if regular
> links can't be created. I've tried adding a <scmsync> tag to an empty
> package, but it's not (yet?) available on PMBS.
> > I don't understand the point of it at all.
> 
> From what I've been told, it simplifies things SUSE-side.

LOL
The joke was good.

Regards
  Eric