[opensuse] why is gsl 2 years old in opensuse?
Guys, Why does 11.3 still have gsl 1.12? It came out in 2008. 1.14 is current which came out in 2010 - 4 months *before* opensuse 11.3 was released. I can understand being a couple of months out of date, but ... a couple of *years* out of date doesn't bode well for distro currency. Who is responsible for updating this type of stuff? A source install with ./configure --prefix-/usr is all that it takes. It might help keep packages current if opensuse had a field in the webpin results returned that said "Flag package as out of date" like they do with other distros just to help with the oversight of package currency. Something to help off-load the "check for new versions" off the devs. I feel sure the community would be glad to help. Then we could just run a query against the packages flagged out of date to see what needs to be brought current. P.S. gsl rocks. Beats the heck out of writing root finders from scratch :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 03:10:46AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
Why does 11.3 still have gsl 1.12? It came out in 2008. 1.14 is current which came out in 2010 - 4 months *before* opensuse 11.3 was released. I can understand being a couple of months out of date, but ... a couple of *years* out of date doesn't bode well for distro currency.
Who is responsible for updating this type of stuff? A source install with ./configure --prefix-/usr is all that it takes. It might help keep packages current if opensuse had a field in the webpin results returned that said "Flag package as out of date" like they do with other distros just to help with the oversight of package currency. Something to help off-load the "check for new versions" off the devs. I feel sure the community would be glad to help. Then we could just run a query against the packages flagged out of date to see what needs to be brought current.
We do this version checking already and it reflects in OSC attributes, via osc collab, or via the build status pages in the webfrontend ... It is just that gsl never announced the versions in a visible way to us (yet). I tagged it with 1.14 available now. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 03:10:46AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Why does 11.3 still have gsl 1.12? It came out in 2008. 1.14 is current which came out in 2010 - 4 months *before* opensuse 11.3 was released. I can understand being a couple of months out of date, but ... a couple of *years* out of date doesn't bode well for distro currency.
lmuelle@giles:~/opensuse> osc branch devel:libraries:c_c++ gsl A working copy of the branched package can be checked out with: osc co home:lmuelle:branches:devel:libraries:c_c++/gsl lmuelle@giles:~/opensuse> osc co \ home:lmuelle:branches:devel:libraries:c_c++/gsl ... Now use the osc add, remove, build and other sub commands to test if it builds locally. After that call: osc commit -m "Update gsl to the current stable 1.14 version." osc submitrequest home:lmuelle:branches:devel:libraries:c_c++ \ gsl devel:libraries:c_c++ And see if the maintainers of devel:libraries:c_c++ appreciate your contribution. @Lars: Why aren't you doing it? @world: I have no particular use of the 1.14 version, therefor also no motivation. Also time is limited and I have to breb coffee now. ;) BTW it looks like the windows:mingw project already uses the 1.14 version. BTW2 a version change to openSUSE 11.3 will very, very unlikely happen. Therfore this is more a question targeting openSUSE Factory. I'm sure the current maintainers welcome any contribution. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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