Why is Synaptic version of Subversion not upgradeable?

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 17:42 -0500, bill walton wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 23:56 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> > bill walton:
[snip]
> > > What do I need to do to upgrade?
> > 
> > If you don't want to build it yourself or find some third-party packe
> > source, you can either upgrade to Intrepid or enable the hardy-backports
> > repository.
> 
> And spend days upgrading all the other packages on my system, and in the
> process breaking the apps I'm developing on the box, requiring still
> more of my time on unproductive, unpaid work.

To say it in your terms:  in order to follow versions on any package
core or not (most users will never need svn), manpower is required.
You didn't pay for Ubuntu and ask for free support.

   *There is no free beer* 

Either put some efforts in keeping your system at the bleeding edge or
pay someone to do it for you.

  Siggy  (for current rates contact me privately :)
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