"Christopher R. Maden" <cr...@maden.org> writes: > On 11/21/2017 09:57 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> "The repos" for what distribution? 2.18.0 was released in December >> 2013. What repos carry software that has been replaced 4 years ago? > > Distros released 4 years ago, like Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty, supported > through April 2019)
Supported by _Ubuntu_. > and its derivatives, including Linux Mint 17.x. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been out for over a year. If you don't want to upgrade, this has consequences for the amount of support upstream will be able to provide for your old software. > Like Eby, I’m generally reluctant to switch away from distro-provided > software packages. It’s frustrating — I wonder if there’s any way we > can put pressure on Ubuntu to upgrade within a distro. They'll say "use 16.04". I doubt that they will feel that backports to 14.04 are a useful investment for anything but severe security fixes. That being said, our packagers install (und uninstall) reasonably smoothly. But with 14.04, you might conceitably be hitting library problems. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
