On 5/8/20 6:00 PM, Scott Bahling wrote:
On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 02:12 +0200, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
Leap users might need to wait until the next rebase of packages, which sometimes happens every year, sometimes every two years and sometimes not until the next major version which is 4 years.
So we no longer do bug fix patching against Leap releases? What are the update repos used for then?
If you referring to stability in the sense of software not crashing. I hope we still fix those classes of bugs with Leap updates.
Yes as a starting point Leap gets any such fixes from SLE and openSUSE maintainers can use a maintenance process similar to SLE's to submit fixes into Leap which does happen regularly. Given that generally this just involves backporting the fixes and not adding new features you could argue it normally makes everything more stable, although occasionally a backport misses something which can cause bugs, but from experience this tends to be less then in new features or you get a fairly obvious break. Cheers -- 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