How up to date are the repositories?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 15:24, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm moments away from switching from Fedora Core 3/4 to Kubuntu-6.06.  I
> have one last reservation and question I need answered.  How up to date are
> the repositories?  I like my packages pretty much completely up to date.
>
> Two things I noticed about the current repos:
> Firefox-1.5.0.4 (up to date, good)
> KDE-3.5.2 (not up to date, bad)
>
> Typically how long does it take after a new version of something is
> released until it shows up in the Kubuntu/Ubuntu repositories?
>
> Thanks for the info.

Generally speaking, I believe that the repositories for a particular release 
will not be upgraded except for security or other bug fixes.  You can upgrade 
to KDE 3.5.3 easily enough.  Information here:

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-353.php

Scott K