On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 1:20 PM Pavin Joseph via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
On 8/11/24 11:49 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
Of your two packages, only one of them was truly a development release: gtk4 at 4.15.4. The libgda 6.0.0 release was not an "unstable" version, but in fact a new stable release series.
That's weird, I was looking at their website [0] which I guess wasn't updated. What further threw me off was Arch and Void shipping the 5.x series still [1].
pkgs.org and repology only tell you what everyone else is doing, it doesn't say much about what upstream does. If everyone else doesn't notice, then they don't upgrade either.
I also want to take issue with the idea that we would only ship "stable" releases as if that fixes everything. It doesn't really. Sometimes a package goes years without a "stable release" and we *do* need to ship so-called "development" or "unstable" releases so things work at all.
Wouldn't it be better if the package maintainer patched the stable version or dropped the package from the repos if upstream is not maintaining or updating it?
Sometimes it's easy to do that and so we can do it, but sometimes it's not. Sometimes there's just not much delta so the difference between patching vs a snapshot is perceptive rather than substantial. It just depends. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!