On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:35:49 +0000, "Voelker, Bernhard" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm also using OpenSuSE and can't understand why they're >distributing such an old version (8.16 from Mar 26th >while 8.19 is out) in the new 12.2 distro. Being the guy that maintains coreutils for openSUSE I can answer that. First of all every distribution at one point in the release cycle declares a package freeze, meaning that no package updates are allowed anymore. Now remember that openSUSE 12.2 was originally planned to be released a couple of months earlier and thus the freeze was declared even earlier and was *not* lifted when the release was pushed back. That's why 8.16 was the last version I was able to push before freeze. Please also note that coreutils development project is Base:System and there I try to keep coreutils current and build them for quite a few releases. But because coreutils dropped su from 8.18 and the util-linux that contains the up-to-date su hasn't been released yet, I have to wait until that has been done to update coreutils. BTW, if you're interested in co-maintaining the openSUSE coreutils package just tell me so in private mail. hth Philipp
