My apologies for asking what seem's like a basic question but how does a user go about requesting that a package get updated? The motu wiki seems geared to becoming a motu. I went looking on the Ubuntu forums as well, no relevant posts in the search, created a post, bumped it some time later, still no replies despite numerous people reading it.
Additionally, I was getting confused about how to determine where a package comes from. I since discovered if I right click in synaptic one of the tabs shows an email address for the maintainer. Of then the comeback from upstream devs is "contact the maintainer for a new version". Ive been compiling some packages from source but its messy because then it wont be integrated into my system and the dependencies become a problem. I would really appreciate updates to: 1. Tripwire 2. SVN mplayer 3. SVN gnome-mplayer (revision 700 has some important fixes) 4. GIT x264 and libx264 I especially consider mplayer, gnome-player and x264 to be a special case where SVN builds do not pose any real risk to being backported into released Ubuntu revisions. Many people are resorting to compiling these by themselves to get updates but it causes dependency problems with the rest of the system. It would be really terrific if these three packages could be built say on a weekly basis and made available to the backport repository. Development on these moves ahead most days and the only problem Ive ever had is it not compiling, which is fixed in a few hours by a new release. This is compounded by these three not being "core" to a default Ubuntu install so new users wont be confused by the regular updates. Thanks -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
