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OpenSUSE already includes it +</I>><i> >> <A HREF="https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=qemu&project=openSUSE%3ATools">https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=qemu&project=openSUSE%3ATools</A> +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> If nobody is against I will do it and contact the maintainer (misc). +</I>><i> > I prefer to wait on the stable release ( ie, no rc1 ). +</I>><i> > We will wait on stable version of qemu. +</I>><i> OK +</I>><i> > And no patch unless it comes from upstream ( and even, I am not keen on +</I>><i> > backporting feature, better wait for stable release ). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> GNS3 is already in stable! This package is broken - no dynamips (=no +</I>><i> router emulation at all...), no patched qemu (no virtualization support +</I>><i> at all...) According to the developers and their online documentation +</I>><i> for package maintainers <A HREF="http://forum.gns3.net/post11571.html">http://forum.gns3.net/post11571.html</A> UDP patched +</I>><i> Qemu is dependency/very important. +</I> +The fact that someone pushed a broken package is not a good reason to +add patches to qemu. We have too many patches on a general scale, and I +do not want to end with a 2nd package like gdb. + +Patches make harder to upgrade, harder to make sure security is done +correctly, and harder to ensure stuff are working ( since we are on our +own when we patch something ). + +So for the patches, make sure it is upstream ( and given the discussion +on ml, it should be soon ) and then in a tarball ( again, given that's a +rc 1, that should be ok soon ). + +><i> We must fix the package and provide at least not so heavy broken ones... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I've prepared new version of GNS3, included into svn dynamips and +</I>><i> xdotool (this one suggested) - these I can maintain with my mentor, so I +</I>><i> ask for patch qemu in stable versus UDP support. +</I> +Updates are not supposed to get new features, so that's no. And again, +maybe people could do more tests before pushing broken rpm to stable +( like gsn3 ). +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009503.html">[Mageia-dev] qemu new upstream release (1.0-rc1) and should we move from qemu-kvm to qemu? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009511.html">[Mageia-dev] qemu new upstream release (1.0-rc1) and should we move from qemu-kvm to qemu? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9506">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9506">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9506">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9506">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |