On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 04:53, houstonbofh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Martin Wildam wrote:
>> I think, you are right and completely agree with you. I also find it
>> annoying that for instance my Ubuntu 9.10 does not get Open Office
>> upgrade to 3.2 during normal upgrades.
> Do you all realize that the "patch" to this bug is to open a ppa for
> firefox or open office on the LTS, right?

What?!? - Really? - Is there a list of ppas that can be added this
way? Doesn't that conflict then with security updates from Canonical?


> It is a bit of work, but that
> is how things get done in open source.  Essentially all it would be is
> testing the backports, and making sure they work, then copying them over.

Adding a repository is quite no work in relation to searching for the
right downloads on the Windows platform continuously again and again.

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