Hello, On Sep 27 22:17 Michael Ströder wrote (excerpt):
IMO it's waste of resources (for upstream and distribution developers and deployers) to ship an older release at a certain point of time while a newer release already has the fixes known at that time.
Your opinion contradicts what is requested by enterprise customers and enterprise requirements are the base of Leap (provided I understand correctly how Leap is meant).
IMO packagers should try to keep the amount of patches at a minimum. Otherwise work piles up and it gets more and more tedious to make the next upstream update.
Yes, and it shows the reason why enterprise customers must pay money to get older releases kept running. An example: CUPS 1.3.9 in SLE11 has meanwhile almost 50 patches. CUPS 1.7.5 in SLE12 has 9 patches. CUPS 2.1.0 in Factory has 8 patches. Usually it is no real fun to do the work that is needed to keep older releases running which is the reason why people who do such work want to get money which is the reason why customers who want that must pay money which is finally the reason why I can feed my children ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg)