If I combine this: Am 10.08.21 um 22:29 schrieb Richard Brown:
It's a core, rarely (if ever) compromised requirement of any enterprise-stable Linux operating system that something built for a major version of that operating system keeps on working on subsequent service packs of that release.
That is where the need to keep python3.6 as the primary interpreter comes from.
with this: Am 10.08.21 um 22:27 schrieb Matěj Cepl:
I cannot say more about our future products, but I am afraid co-installable Python flavours won't be in SLE-15SP4.
Then this: Am 09.08.21 um 20:34 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
On Mon 2021-08-09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Packages on openSUSE leap /have/ to be old. That is simply not true. SLE 15 SP4 / Leap 15.4 are going to bring key updates to the lower levels of the system (including a new kernel version) and the upper half of the cake, as I lovingly call it, can be updated with very few constraints (dependencies being the primary hurdle, which is something we - openSUSE and SUSE - are working to get better in).
is quite an overstatement. In the end it comes back to the fact that you have to tell people like Łukasz or Michael Ströder that they have to move to another distribution if they want a non EOL stack. Other distributions provide LTS releases with a much more recent freeze point. So be it. I am a happy TW user and I am looking forward to the day when nobody ever again tells me to "fix the Leap build" (for :backports) in a Factory submit request. Ben