On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Sébastien Bardeau wrote:

> 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

gtk2-2.10.4-21.el5_5.6.i386.rpm and
gtk2-2.10.4-21.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm
are in 55/{arch}/updates/fastbugs
and 5rolling

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