Hi Peter, On 25 July 2015 at 16:51, Peter Czanik <peter@czanik.hu> wrote:
It was the default in SLES11. With SLES12 it's not in SLES core any more, but available only through a "legacy" repo. That version is quite old (3.4), already EoL upstream.
My plan is to get the current "factory" version into Leap now, and update both Factory and Leap to syslog-ng 3.7 once released by the end of Summer. This is a version, which syslog-ng upstream can support much longer than anything earlier than syslog-ng 3.6.
From the sound of things, I don't think I need to ask _you_ this question, but for the sake of illustration for anyone else in a similar position to you, I'm still going to ask these 3 questions so everyone knows the sort of things that I think should cross package
maintainers minds as they submit things to Leap. 1. Will users get any practical benefit from the new package compared to the version available from SLES? I think the SLES one, with it's SUSE provided maintenance should still be considered unless there is a compelling reason to upgrade it I personally don't think 'it's old', on it's own, is a valid compelling reason (NOTE: in the case of syslog-ng I realise it's presence in the legacy module means the SUSE provided maintenance may not match what we want for Leap, to me that is a valid compelling reason, but I'm still leaving this question here for everyone else) 2. Assuming the answer to #1 is Yes, are you comfortable supporting your chosen newer package in Leap for at least a year, preferably with backported patches and not version updates? 3. Assuming the answer to #2 is Yes, would you plan to increase the version of the package for Leap 42.2 a year from now? Where possible I'd like to see package version choices for Leap favour versions that we can ideally keep around for a while for the sake of long term stability, after all we have Tumbleweed for the 'follow upstream at the pace of upstream' scenario Regards, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org