> But on the other side, developers are forced to discontinue the support for a > stable Ubuntu LTS >like 18.04, because there are no updates which are necessary to run the >application without the > newest bugfixes.
It's the choice of the developer, mainstream application writers usually don't do those choices, look at the requirements that e.g firefox includes. Those projects want to be compatible/work on distro where most of the users are and make sure they are buildable/usable on current RHEL, Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS (and often the previous one). Also note that nowadays as an application developper, if you need a newer GTK for example you can decide to work on a more recent distribution and ship your application as a snap, it's trivial this way to provide softwares to e.g 18.04 users which depending on GTK 3.24 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876821 Title: [needs-packaging] gtk+3.24: gtk+3.22 is discontinued Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Since there are no more updates released for gtk+3.22 it is important, that at least gtk+3.24 is added to ubuntu-18.04 APT. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1876821/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
