On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 01:43:55PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 2026-09-26 12:38 AM, Björn Persson wrote: > > So that particular program is ahead of some other programs that are > > holding the distribution back. That seems to confirm that programs lag > > and use old libraries. > > > Yes, right now Fedora Rawhide lags behind and uses old libraries because > sometimes updating libraries is disruptive to Rawhide. > > Decoupling some applications from Rawhide would remove some of the friction > that is currently causing Rawhide to lag.
Thats one reason, but there are many more, including, but not limited to: * maintainers just haven't gotten to that update yet * It's deliberately not being updated because there's an issue with it and thats being worked out. * The upstream update has no changes that matter for the fedora package. (windows bugfixes, changes in some feature thats not enabled). * The update is minor and maintainers don't think it's worth updating. * Maintainers are waiting for a larger update thats landing soon, so skipping minor ones until that happens repology used to track the 'behind' versions FWIW. Sadly that site is gone, but: https://web.archive.org/web/20260914132657/https://repology.org/ But anyhow, I think if we want rawhide to be 'more up to date', we should look more at helping maintainers rather than just saying 'oh we are 100% up to date, but all these branches aren't ones we use'. kevin -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
