On 8/8/24 12:10, Andreas Stieger via openSUSE Users wrote:
Hello,


On 2024-08-08 21:00, Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users wrote:
I want to install an run hw-probe on my OpenSuSE 15.4 system and ran
into troubles


openSUSE Leap 15.4 is EOL, and consequently the hardware project remove
it as a build target.

openSUSE Leap 15.4 shipped without hw-probe, so if you need it you would
have to upgrade. The current release is openSUSE Leap 15.6.

Andreas

Hmm Why couldn't the hardware project just leave the hardware repository "as is" at EOL so that us slow to upgrade folks could continue to use and retrieve software from it? According to github hw-probe was in the OpenSuSE 15.4 hardware repository - 

https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe/blob/master/INSTALL.md#install-on-opensuse

It seems harsh to actually dump the ability to use a repository just because the associated version of OpenSuSE went to EOL. In this day and age, I can't believe disk storage space is a problem! So what gives? Why break something that was working? Seems like this is a poor policy decision. The repository should just be frozen, no further updates or fixes added, but let it continue to work and be available.

Marc...


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