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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: git-annex (Re: openSUSE:Factory - Build fail notification)
From:       Ben Greiner <code () bnavigator ! de>
Date:       2022-01-28 19:06:26
Message-ID: 58e7890d-77ba-615d-2f5b-480a8f3f55b6 () bnavigator ! de
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Hi,

Am 19.01.22 um 14:07 schrieb Ben Greiner:
> Hi,
>
> Am 19.01.22 um 00:04 schrieb DimStar / Dominique Leuenberger:
>> Dear Package maintainers and hackers.
>>
>> Below package(s) in openSUSE:Factory have been failing to build for at
>> least 4 weeks.
>>
>> - git-annex
>
> The changelog of the last two releases indicates that the test suite 
> failure might be fixed upstream. However it is unclear how to submit 
> an update to Factory:
>
> - The devel project link for git-annex leads to 
> devel:languages:haskell/git-annex, but a look at the history shows 
> that only automated haskell stack updates go through that one.
> - The source comes from a read-only clone of the upstream sources on 
> https://github.com/opensuse-haskell/git-annex which is currently at a 
> state from last November.
>
> What's the advantage of such a setup compared to using a _service with 
> obs_scm pointing to the correct upstream sources at 
> git://git-annex.branchable.com/ ? That way any contributor could 
> submit a fix.
>
> - Ben
>

There was no reaction for a fix in devel:languages:haskell so far [1], 
so I submitted the package to devel:tools:scm [2].

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/947556
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/949757

I am personally using it for my private AWS Glacier backups, so I would 
really like to keep it in Tumbleweed.

- Ben

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