On 29/04/2021 13.51, Axel Braun wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2021, 09:42:38 CEST schrieb Ancor Gonzalez Sosa:
On 4/29/21 12:36 AM, Juan Erbes wrote:
El mié, 28 abr 2021 a las 9:33, Luna Jernberg (<>) escribió:
I really don't understand why Leap uses such old libraries and applications. It is disappointing.
That's the nature of Leap. Big updates take place only on major versions (eg. 15 -> 16). Minor versions are just non-disruptive updates for its corresponding major version, so it should be completely safe (and encouraged) to upgrade your 15.x version always to the latest minor.
I think that statement needs a bit adjustment. Its the nature of *SLE* that base packages see only minor updates, but Leap was always fed from TW for applications (at least most of them) See: https://paste.opensuse.org/63245296
So it should be up to each maintainer to justify what application update is possible for Leap.
I agree, that there are some areas in 15.3 where we are not up to date. But given the difficulties we saw to align the build streams, my feeling is
Sorry, this is not correct. Leap is not fed from TW, but from SLE. At least for the core packages: kernel, libraries, gnome... I don't know the list. Other packages, like KDE, are updated independently, could be taken from TW at some point. that
these difficulties have favoured the slow down.
In other words, 15.1, 15.2 and 15.3 are just "service packs" on top of Leap 15, not a completely new and bleeding edge distribution.
Right, Bleeding edge was never the target of Leap
The core of leap follows the service packs from SLE, same source code, and lately, binary compatible or the same. With 15.3 I'm lost. That explains why many people consider Leap (specially this year) ancient code (it is not that ancient for 15.0, but with each minor version it is more ancient). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)