You're welcome to follow the Stable Release Update procedure as Steve
Langasek suggested.  Someone else came along and marked the task
Invalid.  If you feel it should be updated, by all means complete the
process for the update.  If the upstream and Debian updates were only
bug fixes, then you have a good chance of getting in a stable release
update.  If there were features, you should instead file for a backport:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

On 02/02/2011 05:45 PM, Jim Kelly wrote:
> Usually I feel that the Ubuntu guys are all over it.  This isn't one of those 
> times.  This application is often used.  It makes sense to me the the LTS 
> Lucid would include this as an update, same as they would many others.
> I think peer-to-peer file sharing probably ranks darn high on the "often 
> used" list of features"
> Do we really want Ubuntu users looking at a "Ancient version" message and 
> having a version straight out of the Ubuntu store in the most recent LTS that 
> won't connect without alot of coaxing because it wasn't update for 2 years 
> running?
> Seriously - I think a yearly update to the repo for the LTS is in order for 
> this application.
>

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  [FFe] sync gtk-gnutella  0.96.8-1 from debian unstable

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