why is gsl 2 years old in opensuse?

[David C. Rankin]

Guys,

Why does 11.3 still have gsl 1.12? It came out in 2008. 1.14 is current which
came out in 2010 - 4 months *before* opensuse 11.3 was released. I can
understand being a couple of months out of date, but ... a couple of *years* out
of date doesn't bode well for distro currency.

Who is responsible for updating this type of stuff? A source install with
./configure --prefix-/usr is all that it takes. It might help keep packages
current if opensuse had a field in the webpin results returned that said "Flag
package as out of date" like they do with other distros just to help with the
oversight of package currency. Something to help off-load the "check for new
versions" off the devs. I feel sure the community would be glad to help. Then we
could just run a query against the packages flagged out of date to see what
needs to be brought current.

P.S. gsl rocks. Beats the heck out of writing root finders from scratch :p
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[Marcus Meissner]

Post by David C. Rankin
Guys,
Why does 11.3 still have gsl 1.12? It came out in 2008. 1.14 is current which
came out in 2010 - 4 months *before* opensuse 11.3 was released. I can
understand being a couple of months out of date, but ... a couple of *years* out
of date doesn't bode well for distro currency.
Who is responsible for updating this type of stuff? A source install with
./configure --prefix-/usr is all that it takes. It might help keep packages
current if opensuse had a field in the webpin results returned that said "Flag
package as out of date" like they do with other distros just to help with the
oversight of package currency. Something to help off-load the "check for new
versions" off the devs. I feel sure the community would be glad to help. Then we
could just run a query against the packages flagged out of date to see what
needs to be brought current.

We do this version checking already and it reflects in OSC attributes,
via osc collab, or via the build status pages in the webfrontend ...

It is just that gsl never announced the versions in a visible way to us (yet).

I tagged it with 1.14 available now.

Ciao, Marcus