On 2017-10-06 23:03, Christopher Myers wrote:
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 22:28 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Version numbers exist for a reason. Opensuse's method of patching but leaving the number the same is just lazy (and dangerous). They should be applying community pressure to those packages that use EQUAL in their dependencies rather than GREATER OR EQUAL unless there is a clearly demonstrated reason that can't possibly work.
No way.
I was under the impression that pretty much all of the standard enterprise vendors worked this same way? Eg., SLES doesn't change version numbers, but backports the patches into the baseline versions of the packages to minimize the risk of something suddenly blowing up since the requirements can't be met. And since openSuSE is basically the origination for most things SLES, why would we expect anything different?
Exactly. Not only SLES and Leap, but the previous SuSE/Novell/SUSE stable versions did the same. For decades: the 1990's, the 2000's, the 2010's... nothing new here. Only Factory, now Tumbleweed, works differently. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)