Which repositories should these packages go? (Steam Tinker Launch and Yet another Dialog)

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Hey there :slight_smile:

I just finished working on two separate packages both missing in the semi-official and official repos.
As semi-official I call repos such as game, game:tools, multimedia, kde, kde:framework, mozilla etc. and as official I call all repos shipped by default on a fresh openSUSE install which are also tied towards OpenQA.

Those two packages in question are:

Steam Tinker Launch (short stl): Which is a package I would like to submit to game:tools. However it depends on yad (Yet another Dialog) in version 7.2 or above.
Yad on the other hand is only provided by packman in version 0.36.2 which is way to old for stl to function properly. If launched with it installed it will complain about the wrong version and quit.

So I took the effort to also build yad in my home repo as well as stl. Tested both and they seem to work just fine and would like to submit em’ to the repos.
But I struggle to decide where to submit yad? Since it is not a tool on it’s own nor is it a game.
In fact it is an improved version of zenity to display desktop notifications, windows and apparently dialogs from CLI or shell scripts.

Should I submit both to game:tools or should yad go somewhere else then?
With out yad the user wouldn’t be able to install stl so it must be a place where an avg. user would find it. Preferably without extra steps.

Thank you in advance for any help and tips.
I wish everyone a pleasant day :slight_smile:

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Hi
Do you run osc locally? If so you can see if the package already exist on OBS with;


osc se yad
....
GNOME:Apps

All the rest are home repositories, so you could branch and update that version and then link to it for building and request it gets pushed to Factory and into Tumbleweed? GNOME:Apps is a development repository so it’s the place to go for moving further…

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Hey there Malcolm :slight_smile:

Ah yes, missed that one!
I only searched locally in YaST Software since I have some extra repo enabled and it only showed the one from Packman but I do not have any extra GNOME repos enable my bad. ^^"

Yes I run osc locally before I do any submits to OBS didn’t knew this nice little command this will becoming handy soon.
Thank you for you reply, I’ll try to update the one in Gnome:apps and see if I can get it to Factory :slight_smile:

Have a great day!