Thank you for the reply Hans. I will contact the Debian maintainer and update with the results.
On 11/23/14 4:11 AM, Hans Joachim Desserud wrote: > Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu > better. > >> I would like to update gputils to the current upstream version. If it's > just a question of someone stepping up to maintain it, I would volunteer > to do it. > > I'd suggest you contact the Debian maintainer of this package (see > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gputils) regarding when a newer version > might be packaged. The normal route is that newer versions of packages > are packaged in Debian and then synced automatically to Ubuntu. If that > isn't suitable at the time (Debian is currently in a freeze, preparing > for their next release, so they might be a bit stricter on allowing > newer versions than normally) it is of course also possible to package > the newer version in Ubuntu. > > ** Tags added: upgrade-software-version > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1394296 Title: gputils package is very out-of-date, breaks build of other tools To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gputils/+bug/1394296/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
