Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2022, 07:35:20 CEST schrieb Stephan Kulow:
Am 07.10.22 um 01:04 schrieb Jim Henderson:
For what it's worth, I've always installed from their site and it has never failed me - no problems with incompatible libraries or anything like that. Maybe instead of repackaging it, there's a way to just install a helper that installs the package from their site directly?
It would still be an outdated package only updated when someone at openSUSE's side remembers to update it. Either you take upstream's package or you don't. But if upstream provides a rpm-md repo it can be part of your zypper call to update it.
Also, in my opinion, the developer of calibre is a, shall we say, somewhat special person. And even with him the packages do not always work without errors. It is not uncommon for him to release an update a day or even a few hours after the release of a version. Oh, and about the package in SUSE. I used the package now for about 6 years. And I can't remember any real problem concerning the packaging during this time. In the current case a few things came together. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)