On 2017-08-28 12:02, franz-joseph.barthold@tu-dortmund.de wrote:
Thanks a lot for all comments. I fully agree with them as I am familiar with the openSUSE concepts. I am using and appreciating this distribution from its early days back in 1996.
Nevertheless, my intention is a little different as it has been understood. I like to explain it in detail and more carefully.
First. I am choosing the list opensuse-programming@opensuse.org to submit my ideas due to its official character, i.e. it is mentioned on https:// lists.opensuse.org/ as an official way to get support, see also https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Support.
The later does not mention the programming mail list. The former only says "Discussion about software programming with the openSUSE distribution". It is not in the "User/Support" section, but on the "Topic" section.
Thus, I assume that this list is managed by openSUSE and that the decision makers of openSUSE are informed (even in some filtered form and delayed in time) about the hints and requests.
Seriously, if you want to reach decision makers, post in the factory mail list, or the project mail list. The programming mail list is dedicated to programmers helping other programmers with their programming doubts, and there are very few posts to make it really useful: 34 posts in 3 years.
Second. No software and no distribution is 100% perfect. Thus, all hints should be welcome. Even if once personal viewpoint is not mainstream. Only those spotlight on some rarely investigated branches of software and distribution.
Third. I do not advocate to keep track of all latest/greatest versions or even nightly builds. But some software, which is officially distributed via download.opensuse.org/distribution or download.opensuse.org/repository, is simply outdated. I do not blame somebody for this fact but a simple hint should be allowed.
But you see, this is intentional. The outdated "official" versions of such tools are intentional. Notice also that http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ is official, but http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ is not.
Once some software is chosen to be distributed officially, it should be fairly current. And any new distribution (like openSUSE Leap 42.3) should take the chance to update the packages. I my opinion, openSUSE missed to update BLAS and LAPACK. And the openSUSE team should update in their own interest.
Again, no. openSUSE Leap intentionally uses those "outdated" packages. You misunderstand what Leap is about, I'm afraid. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)