Upgrading in Ubuntu

[Derek Atkins]

I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but I encourage you to go ahead and
follow this process to try to get it updated.  You're welcome to
CC me on your mails, but don't expect me to use any Ubuntu-specific
tools or to log into the ubuntu bug database.  ;)

-derek

Quoting Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>:

> [this copy to the list]
>
> I asked on the Ubuntu Users list what it took to get into Ubuntu
> Backports. I was pointed to
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BackportRequestProcess  and from my reading
> the fixes to GnuCash fall under the following provision:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU
>
> SO (again from my reading) as long as updates to a package don't
> affect anything in the main release (no changes to the standard
> libraries, etc.) AND the package does not conflict with any past,
> present or future version of the package (different version numbers I
> presume) it sounds like it should be fairly easy to get a Universe
> package updated. It just requires several maintainers to verify that
> the new package works for them.
>
> I would suggest that both the Edgy and Feisty releases need this
> attention, for the reasons I stated in my previous post.
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