Dear Troy,

On 04/13/2011 03:29 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> On 04/13/2011 06:53 AM, Sébastien Bardeau wrote:
>>    Dear SL developers,
>>
>> how can I request an update of one of the libraries available in the
>> Scientific Linux distribution and thus in the repositories?
>>
>> I work under Scientific Linux 5.5 but am not administrator of the
>> system. His policy is that the system must match exactly the official
>> distribution. I encounter an annoying bug in gtk+. The current version
>> available under SL5.5 is 2.10.4, while I know for example that the bug
>> has been fixed in 2.10.8 at least. Is it possible to update the micro
>> number (i.e. bug fixes only) of the gtk+ libraries to 2.10.8 or even
>> better to latest stable 2.10.14? Or should I first make the same request
>> to RedHat 5.5, and you will then include it automatically?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Sebastien Bardeau
>>
>
> You should make the request to RedHat, and we will include in 
> automatically.

This makes sense. However, at which time scale the merge occurs? For 
example this bug in GTK+: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648555 has been fixed since 
5 months in gtk2-2.10.4-21.el5_5.1 (so obviously in EL5.5), while it is 
not yet available in SL5.5 (is it?):
gtk2.x86_64                       2.10.4-20.el5                       
installed

Any remark about this?

Best,

Sebastien


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