I'm wondering where to turn when I want to "request" an update to an program in openwrt's "packages"?
I've stuck on an error on nmap 7.8, which is described here: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1764 , which apparently was fixed for a year ago Nmap 7.90 [2020-10-03].
how/when/why (and more) can I update / request the "packages" be updated?
I was just there, and searched for nmap to see if anybody has mentioned something about it, s and there o saw in the source code that 7.91 was the latest, so why isn't that available?
I'm very new at all this, so I'm more used to click and install, and have no idea how it all works..
It is pretty common that package maintainers do not backport new versions to the stable branches. 21.02 is mainly stuff that was there in February 2021, but some packages have been upgraded also there since the branching.
So, the new package version is already there in the master branch, and you could use it you sysupgrade your firmware to the development master, instead of using the stable 21.02.0 release.
I wrote a backport/cherry-pick question to the original PR...
For a userspace program, that is generally possible. Find the .ipk file for your CPU type under downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/ and copy it to your router then install it manually.
Yes at least you should be running x86-64 on that chip. You can see the package directory the installed build is using in the URLs in /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf