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 I can understand being a couple of months out of date, but ... a couple of *years* out of date doesn't bode well for distro currency.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