On 05/04/2020 22:06, Heiko Bauke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 04.04.20 um 16:00 schrieb layingback:
>> Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) LTS ships April 23, but it still only has
>> Darktable 2.6.3 in the official repositories.
>>
>> As an LTS (Long Term Support) it will be supported for 5 years (10 years for
>> paid support). Doubt you want to be supporting new users on 2.6.3 next year
>> and beyond? (Ubuntu rarely updates its repositories with major releases,
>> only bug fixes, ie. darktable 3.0.1 - or even 3.0.0 - could get updated
>> through to 3.0.9, but never 2.x to 3.x.)
>>
>> Ubuntu 20.04 went into Beta yesterday (4/3) with release on 4/23 following
>> FinalFreeze and RC1 on 4/16.
>>
>> I'm only a beta tester (Ubuntu MATE), and just raising a flag. If 3.0.1 (or
>> 3.0.0) has been submitted at your end and it is just not getting through, if
>> you would give me some info to work on I'll see what I can make happen.
>> (Ubuntu MATE includes darktable as a 1-click install.)
>
> the darktable developers' mailing list is probably not the right place to ask
> this question. There is very little what darktable developers can do to get a
> specific darktable version into any Linux distribution. You have to kindly ask
> the Ubuntu maintainers to update darktable for the focal release. According
> to https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/darktable you may reach them via
> ubuntu-m...@lists.ubuntu.com
> This Ubuntu web side also mentions the Debian PhotoTools Maintainers.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Heiko
>
>
Thanks for response. Have progressed somewhat: It should only be included in
Ubuntu via inclusion in Debian upstream, but it is now too late (past feature
freeze) for inclusion in Ubuntu even if it was updated in Debian. However one
person has emerged who is hoping to include in Ubuntu Studio Backports, and has
already received permission for an inclusion Exception for that. So for now it
is just wait and see.
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