You probably want to think about why you need the slightly newer version. All new versions will have new bugs. The highest number isn't necessarily the best.
Caroline Sent from a mobile device. On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:39, Mike Luntz <lap...@mltserv.com> wrote: > 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 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
