> On Monday 30 August 2010 22:03:18 Timothy Pearson wrote: > >> > Hi people, I just want to announce that we at OpenSUSE have got a new >> > KDE3-related list, opensuse-kde3@... >> > >> > Anyone who wants to subscribe send please a message to >> > opensuse-kde3+subscribe@... >> >> On this topic, do you know of any OpenSUSE developers that might be >> willing to package the Trinity sources for OpenSUSE? > > I think nobody will do it. And it is also not urgent as we have well > working > KDE3 currently. OK. > > But if you want to promote Trinity wider OpenSUSE build service is > excellent: > it allows to build packages for OpenSUSE as well as Fedora, Mandriva and > even > Ubuntu. The sources can be automatically downloaded from SVN. > >> Last I checked they >> were not too receptive to the idea, but one of the main enhancement >> requests I get is to generate Fedora/OpenSUSE RPM packages. I can >> provide >> the build systems; > > The only thing OpenSUSE people need less than anything is a build service > :-) OK, that is understandable. As I mentioned before I have no real knowledge of the OpenSUSE world. > >> all they would need to provide are the control files >> and an example build script or command. > > There are many Qt3 and KDE3 applications which are unpackaged besides > Trinity. Also I doubt old spec files from KDE3 would fit for > Trinity: sometimes a package has hundreds of patches, for example, > kdebase3 > has 241 patch in OpenSUSE (and about 30 additional sources), which may be > incompatible with Trinity. That's what I would like to correct--those patches should probably be included in the Trinity source, not just downstream. Looks like I may have to do that myself sometime in the future. > >> Also on this topic, I would prefer to merge the OpenSUSE changes into >> the >> Trinity SVN so as to keep a central location for KDE3 development, >> instead >> of creating two independent islands of development over time. >> >> Just thought I would mention it, since you know the OpenSUSE community >> better than I do. > > Thanks for the reply! Tim