On 09/24/2012 08:21 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote: > 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.
Hi Philipp, thanks for the explanation. Yes, util-linux v2.22 with new su came too late (Sep 4th) for OS-12.2. Have a nice day, Berny
