On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
Because the Ubuntu repositories routinely stick at old versions. As I
understand it, the package maintainer is neither an Xastir user nor a
subscriber to any Xastir list. In fact, I thought I read recently
that the
package maintainer was no longer actively maintaining it, and they
were
looking for a new one.
If you want point-and-click installation, you are at the mercy of
the binary
maintainer. If you want current code, you need to roll your own.
I believe the last time I checked, it was still 1.9.4. We're on
1.9.8 now.
It is possible that they are at 1.9.6 -- if so, they bumped it
shortly before
the 1.9.8 release.
The version of Xastir in the latest (9.10) Ubuntu is actually a
recompilation of the version contained in the Debian testing
repository (the released version of Debian has 1.9.2). This is the
case for many of the Ubuntu packages. If 1.9.8 gets into Debian
testing soon, it might make it into the next release of Ubuntu (10.4
in April).
Bob, N7XY
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