Hi List, I am wondering what the strategy of the openSUSE distribution is with regards to the base system packages. Lately I have seen that quite a number of these packages (e.g. systemd, dracut) are on very old versions, but contain a very high number of patches (most of the time even more than one hundred). Given this situation I am wonder what happened to the strategy to follow upstream releases and to update packages to the latest versions available (something that Tumbleweed is promising). It seems as if the maintainers here are following an old approach where a package is updated to the latest release when a new distro version is started and then only update the package with patches. This approach might be understandable for a product like SLE, but is this also the right approach for openSUSE ? Also I wonder if with this amount of patches the stability of these important packages (as they are part of the base system) is really guaranteed. In my opinion it would be very hard to keep all those patches separated and updating such packages to the latest version could become a nightmare. In many areas we are trying to stay as close to upstream as possible, but it seems that this is not happening in the most important area (the base system) and I am wondering why. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org