On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:16:12PM +0100, Michael Ströder wrote:
Rüdiger Meier wrote:
Anyways, reproducing a bug and confirming that a newer version already fixes that bug is already the half work. Somebody else may do the rest and actually backport it.
Backport patches are causing nothing than grief and frustrate upstream developers.
Essentially what you are saying is that the very idea of SLES or RHEL (or any LTS distribution) is completely wrong. Sure, upstream developers would love everyone using latest released version (or even development snapshot). Users, on the other hands, are mostly not excited about continuous stream of regressions and incompatible changes in behaviour. Leap was presented as LTS-type distribution. If part of package maintainers decides to ignore that and upgrade their packages whenever they feel like it (or don't feel like backporting a fix), we get a distribution which is part LTS and part "rolling upgrades" which may end up making fans of both approaches unhappy. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org