Sometimes the issue is marked as fixed but a new version won’t be coming out for months and you’re simply told to compile it yourself only to find it has literally hundreds of carefully tuned compilation dependencies and environment specific settings that aren’t documented.
Open source has no tangible effect on release schedules?
If the software in question was proprietary you wouldn’t even have that option. Distro packages could backport that fix too.
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Sometimes the issue is marked as fixed but a new version won’t be coming out for months and you’re simply told to compile it yourself only to find it has literally hundreds of carefully tuned compilation dependencies and environment specific settings that aren’t documented.
Opensource is the best!! 😅
Open source has no tangible effect on release schedules?
If the software in question was proprietary you wouldn’t even have that option. Distro packages could backport that fix too.
What are you trying to build, the equivalent to a death star?
Hello world.