Software updates

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:06 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 06/18/2011 02:54 PM, Zach wrote:
>> Just wondering how often the repositories are updated.  For instance,
>> Stellarium has been at version 0.10.6 for nearly a year but the Ubuntu
>> repository still has it at 0.10.5.  There are numerous other examples
>> but you get the idea.  I check/use the update manager daily but it seems
>> the only updates it retrieves are security upgrades and libraries.  I've
>> reloaded the repositories in Synaptic but everytime I do a check for
>> upgrades, there's nothing new added.
>
> http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Download
> <quote>
> Stellarium PPA
>
> As the Stellarium release schedule does not follow closely the Ubuntu
> release schedule, often the Stellarium version in Ubuntu's repositories
> is not the latest one. Stellarium's team provides a Launchpad PPA
> (personal package archive) that allows Ubuntu users to obtain the latest
> released version.
>
> The page of the PPA in Launchpad is here: Stellarium Ubuntu Releases.
>
> As of January 2011, it contains packages of Stellarium 0.10.6 for Ubuntu
> 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat).
> </quote>
>
> Add your 'Affects me to' to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/stellarium/+bug/711905
> [[needs-packaging] [new upstream]Stellarium 0.10.6 ]
>
> Looks like the maintainer has gone missing...
> https://launchpad.net/~cedric-debian

Notwithstanding the Debian maintainer being AWOL, AFAIK Ubuntu pulls
its packages from Debian so Ubuntu's package versions depend on the
package versions in Debian's testing and unstable branches.