At 15:03h, on Wednesday, September 07, 2016, in message <4ca52ece-3595-43a7-99e8-41585a597...@belledonne-communications.com>, on the subject of "Re: [Linphone-users] Linphone 3.10 and Ubuntu Linux and Debian Linux", Sandrine Avakian wrote -
> We reached out to debian maintainers to know if they were interested in > updating > linphone packages. We are currently waiting for their reply. Are you familiar with the Debian model of updating packages? When a new source version of a Debian package becomes available, it gets built and put into the instable distribution "sid" (still in development)of Debian -- this is the most volatile version which is continually in a state of flux. After a reasonable amount of time has passed and nothing bad has happened, that version then gets promoted to the "testing" distribution (currently named "stretch"). When the Debian distribution manager considers it appropriate for a new version of the main stable Debian distribution to be produced (about every one to two years), a freeze is put on the "testing" distribution (no new updates allowed except for critical bug and security fixes) followed by about 3-6 months of bug squashing. Only if all critical or serious or security bugs have been eliminated is that version of "testing" then used to replace the "stable" as a new version of stable. Thus when a new version of software is released it may take 1 to 2 years for it to eventually arrive in the stable distribution. The stable distribution only gets critical bugs and security updates, not new versions of software. Ubuntu LTS releases are based on Debian testing and intermediate releases on Debian sid. So do not expect the now latest version of linphone to appear in either Debian stable or the current Ubuntu LTS (16.04). If users of linphone want the latest version, they should either compile it themselves from source or switch to a bleeding edge rolling release distribution of GNU/Linux and suffer the instability problems that are inherent to htem. And remember that linphone relies on many libraries which all have to be of the appropriate updated version, so the problem of updating is no small matter. _______________________________________________ Linphone-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users
