What programs will be updated in in warty?

[Eric Feliksik]

Only security updates will be applied; no fancy new-versions updates.

For installing new versions of your software manually, please read 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/newer-versions .

Eric



hobbe wrote:
> What programs will see update in the stable branch?
> 
> Some programs that I use quite heavily have reach a new or already had a
> new version when Ubuntu Warty was released.
> 
> They are not uncommon programs, in fact quite common.
> 
> Inkscape, soon to be releasing 0.40, warty has only 0.38, it as a SVG
> vector creation program that gets a load of new features every release
> that one comes quite use too and it is hard to go back to a older
> version.
> 
> Blender, a 3d creation program. the version that is out is 2.34 and the
> version in warty is 2.33a. Same thing here as with Inkscape, the program
> has loads of new improved features every new dot-release that is hard to
> be with out. 
> Blender has bin-packages on their site, but warty uses a older libstdc++
> than the one shipped with warty and then one on blenders site is linked
> against a new version. (new versions of libraries is not as importen,
> but programs then usually have to be recompiled especially for warty
> with older sets of libraries)
> 
> GIMP, no new release as of now, but soon to be released. I really hope
> GIMP 2.2 will be available to update to in Warty when released.
> 
> Firefox, the final version is out. I REALLY hope warty will include this
> in it's repository soon, then version that is in Warty right now has som
> irritating small bugs. And all extensions for that gets released for
> firefox will target the 1.0 from now on.
> 
> Wine, not something I use right now and can live with out. But would be
> nice with a newer version. 
> 
> I really hope Warty and other releases from Ubuntu doesn't follow
> debian's path were you all most every time have to live with 2-5version
> behind the latest when using above and other programs. Even in
> unstable. 
> 
> XFree86 would be nice to see be changed to X.org, but as I understand
> debian is waiting for x.org to become completely modulelized since
> Xservers has been to large and complicated packages to do the "debian
> way" every new release so they just stopped after XFree86 4.3. The
> debian way is to also make sure that it works on all the 10 different
> plattform that debian is released for. Ubuntu only have 3 targets, x86,
> x86_64 and PPC.
> But as I understand, next big release from ubuntu will see X.org even if
> if is not released for debian. It was just to big of a project for
> warty.
> 
> Nice to see ubuntu using the debian policy of creating stable and
> integrated binary packages but with the speed in release and development
> of Gnome.
> Ubuntu is what Debian fail to become. A modern, fresh, FREE, easy to
> use, up-to-date (if they could update the above programs also would be
> nice) Linux for all most every user.
> 
> /Hobbe
> 
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