Hi, > Today I encountered another LLVM-specific bug that affects at least > one Rust package and causes non-working code to be produced, which > prompted this question: > > Why are stable releases not getting bugfix releases of LLVM? > > Fedora 35 is stuck at LLVM 13.0.0, while 13.0.1 has been released. > Fedora 36 is stuck at LLVM 14.0.0, while 14.0.1 through 14.0.6 have > been released. > Even Rawhide is at LLVM 14.0.5, but has not been updated to 14.0.6 yet > (released over 3 weeks ago). > > However, the llvm13 compat package that exists on Fedora 36+ *has* > been updated to version 13.0.1, so I'm not sure why this update wasn't > also pushed to Fedora 35, where LLVM 13 is the default, and would > benefit much more from bugfixes provided by 13.0.1. > > Given that llvm and the whole llvm ecosystem (clang, lld, rustc, ghc > on some architectures, mesa/llvmpipe) are an important part of our > stack, it seems bad that stable releases are missing out on several > bugfix updates for those critical packages. > > I appreciate that updating ~a dozen packages for new LLVM point > releases is work, but I don't think having outdated LLVM components on > stable releases of Fedora is a good idea, either. > > What can we do to improve this situation?
Have you reached out to the maintainer(s)? In the past they seem to have been quite effective at keeping things up to date AFAIA so maybe they've got stuff going on of late, PTO, have other priorities or something else. You don't mention if you've had a discussion with the maintainer(s), whether they replied, or even cc:ed them on this mail. I personally would tend to do that before mailing a list, but then maybe you have and you didn't mention it here. Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
