Martin Pluskal wrote:
Dne 27.09.2015 v 18:18 Michael Ströder napsal(a):
That's what they usually do because they experience problems or at least have questions.
I am not sure if you or those hypothetical users are not missing the point of Leap, that is long term supported, stable release,
For whatever definition of "stable"...
where stability usually does not go well along having latest packages.
In this particular case: If 3.0.3 contains bugs making certain deployments impossible and upstream developers answer "use 3.0.9" it's pretty stupid to ship 3.0.3 in a long-term release now and start back-porting all the fixes to that package for years. Personally I can live with custom packages for my own deployment and will simply stop contributing then.
For users seeking latest versions, there is Tumbleweed.
Note that I'm not advocating upgrading to latest beta releases here (which would be unreleased 3.1-branch in case of FreeRADIUS).
Also notice that same kind of argumentation which you are using for freeradius-server could be applied to almost any package in distribution.
Yes, I know. :-/
Anyway, even with latest freeradius-server in Leap it is still possible that somebody (bugowner) would have to backport fix from upstream master - and as you already said, you are willing to do only version bumps.
This unnecessarily eats up SuSE developer resources without actually gaining "stability". Ciao, Michael.