>  > You are right. Most distributions including gsl. But the versions are
>  > not updated. I see no major distribution which includes gsl 1.7. (SUSE
>  > 10.0, Fedora Core 4 and Mandriva 2006 use gsl-1.6).
>
> Thanks for the information.  It would be good if people filed a bug
> for their distribution if it has an out of date version of GSL.  I
> looked on the SUSE bugtracker for example and there is no bug for
> that.

Don't get me wrong. The mentioned distributions are from last year so they may 
not had the time to integrate the newer version. But nonetheless they will 
never provide new packages for these distributions (only in a 
development/testing/factory repository).

-- 
Stefan Gerlach