[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] tracking of changes done by Kopano Upstream

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Wednesday 2018-05-02 12:11, Simon Eisenmann wrote:
>
>> We will need some better communication about what Kopano is planning to
>> include as new, changed or removed features in which release otherwise
>> it really takes to much time in a longterm to keep tracking all of this.
>> Packages provided by Kopano and Debian will divide unnecessarily away to
>> much much from each other. These costs have to be payed first by the
>> users, something which isn't nice.
>
>So to make tracking of changes easier we are planning to publish our packaging
>source files to a Git repository which is automatically created from our
>internal OBS sources.

Remember that the packaging source files are already made available via
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/server:mail:kopano/kopano (matching the
particular version that there is - which is usually the series distros want
anyway).
ISTR I mentioned that at the Villa Sonsbeek meeting..

>> Kopano itself is now providing some Python3 based packages for 8.6.x.
>> Also some more tools like the spamd or storeadm. It has taken pretty
>> much time on my side to sort out the new things which are now installed.
>> And also some time to decide into which package I should integrate the
>> new files.

Checked the packaging source files?