Il giorno Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:32:43 +0100
Rüdiger Meier
because we did not follow SLE in 42.1. And now for 42.3 it's just luck that it was not even upgraded to 3.5 already (just to support latest KDE or Blender).
For the record, I asked for a Python upgrade[1], I got turned down with very good reasons, so I cooperated with upstreams (KDevelop) to ensure their software (kdev-python) would work also with 3.4 (it required 3.5 due to deliberate breaking changes in 3.4.x).
Actually I'm feeling now like having completely wrong understanding about Leap. Is it a stable LTS distro or not? Is it a replacement for
One of the desktops (the default) is actually a LTS version, and will not get upgraded (save to the latest minor release).
like "Let's change it, I think it would be good. Don't want to maintain different packages for TW and Leap". texlive was already
You seem to underestimate the effort of tracking a lot of packages for desktops like GNOME or KDE's Plasma. Besides, do you want to ship codebases that will not receive either bugfixes or security updates? Simple utilities *may* be fine, some more complex programs not. [1] http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026975 -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team GPG key ID: A29D259B