On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:53:53 -0700 Jan-Pawel Wrozstinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did a little more digging and found that coreutils (is? are?) > supported by the Synaptic Package Manager. It reports the current > version as matching the latest version, viz: 6.10-6ubuntu1 > OK. You are running Ubuntu, either Intrepid (8.04) or Jaunty (8.10). Both of them use coreutils 6.10-6ubuntu1. This is the current version of coreutils for these Ubuntu versions, and they will *NOT* be upgraded to coreutils v8.*. Although some times we do backport new versions of a package, there must be a clear case of need. This clear case is not present here, unfortunately. Even more, coreutils is a core package, and there may be other impacts. > I ran a reinstallation anyway; no change. tail --help still shows > what I wrote before, and tail --version shows 6.10 Yes. See above. > I'm kind of new to this neighborhood; I need a little > guidance. If coreutils is supposed to be at version 8 but is > actually only at 6 and not getting upgraded, to whom should this be > reported? (And would it be naÃve of me to think no-one has noticed > it before and I should be the one to report it?) This list, indeed, is not the correct place: this is coreutils development/bugs, a.k.a. "upstream" for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. For *Ubuntu* issues, you can go to: * https://ubuntuforums.org (the official Ubuntu forums) * https://answers.launchpad.net, (support questions, *not* package bugs) * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu (package bugs, *not* support questions) But I can tell you, right now, that we will probably not upgrade coreutils to version 8 on already-published versions of Ubuntu. You can always build it yourself, though. I am considering publishing an *unsupported* version of coreutils, and publishing on my PPA for Ubuntu. But -- and this is an extremely important 'but'-- you should be aware that there are *always* a risk on using up-to-date, non-official, packages, on an older version. If you use them, you will not be able to open bugs on Ubuntu. Finally, even coreutils 8.0 may not be put available for the new Ubuntu version -- Karmic, 9.10. It is too late in the cycle to test V8, and put it in (we are releasing 9.10 by end-of-month). Chhers,
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