On 4/11/20 4:58 PM, Axel Braun wrote:
Am Freitag, 10. April 2020, 23:11:33 CEST schrieb PGNet Dev:
From: Adrian Schröter [mailto:adrian@suse.de]
or does Jump continue to stay stuck on old versions, leaving TW as the only choice of released version for newer base/core tech?> Jump would also stuck. It is not really a difference to use source or binaries from SLE in this regard.
Yes, TW is the only way in openSUSE for a distro with newer versions. Well, except that it is seen valuable (and safe) to update in next SLE service pack.
But Leap and Jump do not differ here with current plans at least.
noted.
not the answer i _hoped_ to hear, but not surprising ... (though, imo, hobbling leap 15.2 with outdated systemd right out of the gate is a mistake; but, again, that's me)
As of now there have always been options for a version bump - I guess that will stay. Or even extend
For core packages, there generally needs to be a really good business reason to justify the extra QA and maintenance costs which are significantly higher for SLE packages as SLE versions are maintained for much longer then Leap ones. SLE customers also expect not too much to change in service packs so its certainly a juggling act. Leap only packages on the other hand are a bit different and much less likely to be a core component which is why maintainers have more flexibility there. The problem with doing a distro half way in between Leap and Tumbleweed, is agreeing what should change and when as everyone has different opinions on what packages should stay the same and which packages should change which makes it very hard to define what the distro should look like. It would also take significant extra man power when Leap and Tumbleweed seem to be meeting the majority of users needs. Have you considered trying tumbleweed, Ive been using it on most of my machines for several years. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B