[GNC] Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Gnucash 3.2

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thanks for the run-down.

So simply a case of Universe not pulling an update from Sid yet then? (or will that never happen and each release’s Universe is always tied to Testing? and then Stable, etc.) I know there is a separate backports repository as well. Perhaps that’s a better solution?

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 31, 2018, at 12:46 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:10 PM Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> I’m not sure what kind of work this would be on the devs, but Ubuntu has a special procedure for LibreOffice and Firefox (if not other apps, perhaps Thunderbird and Chrome/Chromium as well) where new versions are available in the LTS repos either as available or by point-release.
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> This may be an option for GnuCash.
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> I’m not sure what’s involved, or if the team just has to ask Canonical to give it the same special treatment.
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> But Canonical might prefer to push for an up-to-date Snap instead.
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> Regards,
> Adrien
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> 
> What you're describing is a special Ubuntu maintainer -- essentially someone who has volunteered (and in some cases paid?) to keep particular packages up-to-date. They have identified a few "mission critical" packages such as web browsers and LibreOffice as deserving special treatment.
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> Most packages, like GnuCash, get copied in from Debian and go into the "Universe" repository. The folks in charge of those are called "Masters of the Universe" or MOTU.
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