Binaries for arrow missing for SLES/SP6 and 7

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Since a few months the last binary available was 22.0.0.1 for SP 6. Now in SP7 there is no arrow binary, not even this on we installed with devtools as a workaround.

Please adjust / check the package builds so that Cpp 20 required by arrow is present and binaries are served.

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Hey @whocares, thanks for the report and we'll try to fix this. The problem is that SLES 15 SP6/7 ship with GCC 7 by default, which is far too old for C++20 packages like arrow. SLES provides newer GCC versions, but the tricky part of using them is that GFortran has a major ABI compatibility break in GCC 8, so updating to a newer GCC for all builds is going to break users.

We're looking into a way to build arrow with a newer GCC without breaking Fortran packages for existing uesrs.

@whocares arrow binaries should now be up for the latest version on SUSE 15 SP6/7 (opensuse156).