Thanks for the reply Justin. I'll take a look at the references you provided and decide, based on what I find, what my next step will be.
Mike On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 21:30 -0500, Justin Dugger wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Mike Luntz <lap...@mltserv.com> wrote: > > I am a relatively inexperienced user of Ubuntu and have noticed that > > even though new versions of applications are available from developers > > as source code, the package versions seem to lag significantly. Do > > application packages remain at the version that existed when the > > specific version of Ubuntu was released or do the MOTU maintainers > > update application versions as time and resources permit? > > First, see this document: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports > > Versions may be backported if you have time or inclination to follow a > process. New versions can be placed in -backports, but it has to be in > development branch (Lucid) first, for both technical and social > reasons. > > > The specific package I have in mind is Avogadro, for which version 1.0 > > was just released. The version available on Jaunty is 0.8 and on Karmic > > is 0.9.7. I have considered compiling the source for version 1.0. But > > compiling version 1.0 depends on a number of other applications which > > are not available as packages and would, themselves, need to be compiled > > from source. Although I have installed a few applications from the > > source in the past, doing this for Avogadro seems too daunting a task. > > Two commands you may very much appreciate are: > > * apt-get source avogadro > and > * apt-get build-dep avogadro > > These will get you the existing source, including debian/ubuntu > specific patches, and install the build dependencies. That may give > you the tools you need to build 1.0. If you get it to work, consider > reporting this to MOTU or the Debian maintainers. > > > So I am wondering whether there will ever be a version update to > > Avogadro on either Jaunty or Karmic. > > It looks like right now the only attention this package gets in Ubuntu > is fixing build failures. Which is fine; you should get in contact > with Debian and see if they're working on it. If they are, it could be > possible to get it sync/merged from Debian unstable to Lucid, test it, > then backport to Karmic. This may take some time, but it's an > unavoidable consequence; 1.0.0 released little over a week ago. > > Justin Dugger -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
