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 -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna