Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2017, 07:33:10 CEST schrieb Michal Kubecek:
On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:18 Mathias Homann wrote:
...have we at any time in the past ever had a situation where there was only ONE version of openSUSE officially supported?
I mean, Leap 42.3 is not out yet...
Current situation is quite different from what we had earlier. In the old model, each new version was really new, forked fresh from Factory, so that there was in actually no real "major" and "minor" version. As new versions came each 6 or 8 months (more or less), noone could blame users who did not want to do a full upgrade to new codebase so often. That's why there was an overlap between [n] and [n+2], so that you could skip e.g. 12.2 and upgrade directly from 12.1 to 12.3 without losing support at any moment.
With Leap 42.x, core packages (mostly) follow SLE ones where the policy is that upgrading in a new service pack should be well reasoned, not just "hey, there is a new upstream version". And this logic should apply to most of the distribution - or at least that is the plan. There are exceptions, of course, as some packages do not fit into this model well and some maintainers do not agree with this policy, but in general, Leap 42.x and 42.(x+1) should be much closer to each other than e.g. 12.1 and 12.2. Therefore users should fear upgrading to next point release less and it should make much less sense to skip 42.2 and upgrade 42.1 systems directly to 42.3.
That leads me to the question....SUSEStudio is currently still offering 42.1, but no 42.2 or 42.3. Is there a chance that there is an update soon? (someone used the word 'abandonware' in the context with Studio....fingers crossed he's wrong...) Cheers Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org