Is there a way to report outdated package?

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I mainly use manjaro/arch, but I also use Tumbleweed because I want to learn Opensuse’s tools and build service which considered to be the most sophisticated of all other distributions.

I have a question. In arch there is an option to “Flag Package Out-of-Date”. Is there anything similar for Opensuse? The main packages which I am concerned about are **smlnj **(which is at version 110.74 while the 110.81 has been released for quite some time, even ubuntu has a newer version than tumbleweed) and brisk-menu (which is at version 3.5 while 4.5 is out and MATE is unusable without this new version in my opinion).

Maybe a bug report as described here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports is appropriate for asking a new version of a package?

First post on the forum, so please tell me if I posted on wrong Category or anything.

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Yes,
The general recommendation has been to submit a bug report to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org

Then your request can be assigned to someone.

TSU

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Thx a lot!

Maybe someone can add this info to the OpenSuse wiki, because in some distros like arch, submitting bug reports and flagging packages as out-of-date are considered different tasks.

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Hi
Or an even easier way is create an OBS account and add a comment to the package(s) (or better yet, branch, update and submit to the development repo);

https://build.opensuse.org/
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools:compiler/smlnj
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:MATE:Factory/brisk-menu

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Thx. I will try to leave a comment at smlnj package because it’s too complicated. I will try to do the branch->update->submit procedure for the brisk-menu in order to start learning OBS (I already have some basic experience with rpms from Fedora’s Copr and it’s easy package so I should be able to achieve that).

One question, just to be sure. When I click on the official brisk-menu package from openSUSE Software, then it takes me to Show openSUSE:Factory / brisk-menu - openSUSE Build Service. But on the top-right it says “Developed at X11:MATE:Factory” which leads to the link you sent. So, I guess I should leave comments where the packages are “Developed” and not where the software.opensuse.org leads you in the first place right?

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Hi
Yes, correct :wink: If you always pick the ‘Tumbleweed’ release name on the left, there is a link at the top to the development project which as you deduced the packaged should be branched/updated from. This will then make it through to Tumbleweed once accepted at the development project.

Things are a little different for the Leap releases, maintenance updates, but really is only for security/bug fixes of the release versions, eg openSUSE Leap 42.2.

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Or even expand that idea, step up, start building and submitting. Become a contributor. OBS is your friend If you already know a bit about packaging, OBS is easy.