Re: version of gsl

[Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:11 AM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 11:45 AM stan via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:35:15 +0200
Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have
> gsl-2.6-6.fc36.x86_64
> installed.
>
> It is the version 2.6 of gsl?
> It seems that fc37 offers version gsl-2.6-7
>
> If I understand gsl-2.7 is not offered by the distribution
> while gsl-2.7 has been updated in June 2021.
> Is there a reason for this lag?

Lack of package maintainer resources?  Slipped through the cracks?  You
could try opening a bugzilla against gsl asking for the version to be
updated.

GSL has been around for a long time, and is widely used.  Updating GSL

affects many packages, so it takes time for all the upstream developers to

support a new GSL version.  If the new version only adds new features without

breaking backwards compatibility it would be appropriate for Fedora to provide

the new version, but there may be non-trivial work to get GSL working with new

compiler versions and Fedora's rather fussy default options.

That being the case, it would probably be best to create a COPR, if one doesn't exist already, to test compatibility with all the dependent packages before even creating a side-tag.  

Thanks,

Richard

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