Upgrading packages

[Neil Winchurst]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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?
> 
> And the answer is an uninformative "maybe", and the same way you get updates
> for anything else...
> 
> Each Universe package will have its own maintainer, and you're at the mercy
> of the maintainer whether you ever get security updates.  You generally
> _won't_ get version updates for _any_ packages, not just universe.  When
> security patches are made, the patches are applied to the current release,
> not the latest version available upstream.
> 
> The good news in this case is that you can have 2.5.0 next week if you
> upgrade to Intrepid...

Thanks for all the info. And I will not be upgrading to Intrepid. I 
still use Gutsy, though I may add Hardy as a dual boot soon. But not 
with KDE4.

Neil