Upgrading packages

[Art Alexion]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 12:04:19 pm Neil Winchurst wrote:
> I use sylpheed email client which I installed from the repositories. It
> is version 2.4.5. Looking at the web site I see that the latest stable
> version is 2.5.0, but I have not seen any update information at all. So
> my question is, will I ever get updates for such packages and if so how?

Maybe, but probably not.  Except for the backports repos, the PPAs and some 
third party repos, package versions are usually frozen for a distro version.  
Updates that are available are usually security updates and major bug fixes.

As an example, take samba which I believe is in main.  Current version is 
3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5 for Hardy.  It will not see an upgrade to version 4, but 
may see some security fixes.  


If you want upgrades like you describe, you will need to (a) find another 
source, (b) compile from source, or (c) upgrade your distro.



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