On 08/09/2016, J G Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Okay; given that Ubuntu 16.10 is expected to be released next month, what about inclusion of Linphone 3.10.x in that release? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... _______________________________________________ Linphone-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users
