On mercredi 25 avril 2018 14:05:15 CEST Dave Pawson wrote: > Is it up to us to let our distos know that a new version is available > or do the devs normally do this please? > Fedora in my case. > > > TiA
The basic repositories for at least OpenSuse aren't very quick in taking up new versions, especially not when those new versions require newer versions of supporting libraries. Usually that's to avoid problems with other software, and not able/willing to test the new versions: published versions of a distribution are supposed to be stable and well tested. That said, OpenSuse has a "rolling release" version (Tumbleweed) that is updated with the newest versions of many programs. (Darktable is there at version 2.4.0, with a "last modified" date of April 10th, normal repositories are at 2.2.5) There might also be third-party repositories for your distribution that provide the latest versions. They are not under the responability of the official distributors, so you can run into problems. In my experience, such problems usually were due to me mixing versions or using an old version of a supporting library (and sometimes the conflict couldn't be resolved). But in any case, any repository will need a few days (a week?) to compile the sources against its library versions, package the binaries etc. So you'll have to be a bit patient: the release date is the release of the source code version, and possibly binaries provided by the development team. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
