On 30.07.2021 17:38, Chuck Payne wrote:

Good morning,

So, question. We use to have Evergreen which was going to be our LTS version, so that when a distro reached the magical .3 in the release, we could switch to Evergreen.

I haven't seen anything on it in while, has Evergreen stopped? Do we not have any LTS version?

According to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen, the latest version based on openSUSE 13.1 "Still accepting contributed patches".

I am switching a lot of systems from openSUSE 42.3 to 15.3, and I am saddened by the number of software packages that seem to have been removed. One of the reasons I started using SuSE back in the day was, it had the most packages, which was awesome.

Here is an example, Nginx has a log of module packages that are no longer there. Oh, please don't tell me to go too software.opensuse.org, is great only if people keep their software up-to-date. I don't know how many packages I have found only to get that it going to do break major things.

Even Tumbleweed seems to be losing packages. Did I miss something?

Tumbleweed policy became more strict regarding unmaintained packages. If package fails to build, it is automatically removed from Factory unless someone steps in to fix it. On the bright side, notification is posted on factory list in advance, so if you are truly interested and need one of announced packages you have chance to prevent removal.

By the way, I did try to sent this to opensuse-project@opensuse.org, but got a bonus back fromn election-official-ower@list.opensuse.org, so not sure what is up with that.

You have been sleeping for a quite long time it seems ... :)

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