On 8/10/24 10:35 PM, Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users wrote:
So, how best to resolve this issue? Bug report? Let this topic play out on this news group longer? Just curious! Marc...
Old issue and it is solely up to the powers that be. It is the not so subtle push to upgrade that we've seen when releases hit end of life for two decades. My 15.4 install was perfect, still is, but with the mozilla repo disappearing, it was either time to uninstall FF and pull the linux version from mozilla.org, or try the next versions. There are packages that do not exist in TW that cause issues with with kde3 like botan/libbotan versions preventing install of the kde-gtk package (the one that works). I have a suspicion that may be the root of the issue I see with libinput and kwin and Gtk apps, but it may not be as well. It's not just kwin that is having cursor issues with Gtk apps. In a perfect world, the repos would just be left up, just like the distribution and many of the mainstream repositories for each release are. So long as the packages still work, it's no skin off of anyone's teeth just to let the repo sit there. The issues creep in when CVE's would impact packages just sitting there. Like the recent xz/ssh issue or the curl issue. Then somebody would have to determine if the versions were vulnerable and rebuild. SUSE does have a vested interest in not having broken vulnerable packages laying around -- I get that. So I see the concerns on both sides, but granted, there are very few xz/ssh or curl CVE's that come along (and 15.4 wasn't vulnerable to begin with in the version of xz it had). It is just up to the distro. Though turning off mozilla did seem a bit spiteful... :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.