[GNC] Backports in Ubuntu? was: Ubuntu binary fairly dated

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Disclaimer: I'm actually an Ubuntu developer (and a Debian Developer
too!), though I'm not actually involved on the maintenance of the
gnucash package :)

On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:13:04AM +0100, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> Am 03.12.21 um 22:19 schrieb Mike Brady:
> > Have been following this thread because I use Linux Mint, which is based
> > on the LTS version of Ubuntu. Yes, the GnuCash version in the Ubuntu LTS
> > repository is way out of date (3.8).
> 
> AFAIK the Ubuntu family is a branch of the Debian family. And Debian has
> usually recent GnuCash versions in their Backports repos.

That's not totally correct.  Debian currently ships:

   Debian release                   gnucash release
 * 10 (oldstable)                   3.4
 * 10 (oldstable-backports)         4.4
 * 11 (stable)                      4.4
 * 11 (stable-backports)            -nothing-
 * 12 (testing)                     4.6
 * (unstable)                       4.8 (this was literally uploaded today)


> Q1: Offers Ubuntu no backports repos?

It does.  I just so happen (!) to be involved in the Backports team.
Ubuntu backports have been basically not-functional for years now, but
we have been re-bootstrapping the project.

So, I suppose, I could see about backporting it to ubuntu
focal-backports (20.04-bpo).
But I'm currently very busy with other projects, so this won't happen
extremely soon at least.

> If the answer is No, Why?
> Perhhaps worth to discuss with the Ubuntu user base?

The place to discuss these things, rather than with the "user base"
(what's that? ;) would be either ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
(for general stuff) or ubuntu-backports at lists.ubuntu.com (for the
backports project specifically), both MLs require subscription.

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