<div dir="ltr">Hi Ronnie,<div><br></div><div>whilst risking the wrath of the technocrats :P Very basically put, to have a new version of an application added to an existing release involves something called SRU [1] This means that new versions have to be tested on the lubuntu+1 (currently 13.10) as working before they can be considered for inclusion into the already existing releases. So, if you do want to get a look (and test) the most recent versions of applications, you need to look at what is hitting the 13.10 area. An example of the use of PPA's and requests for testing is pcmanfm, which has landed into Saucy [2]. If it is happy update, then the devs *may* request an SRU for it to added to the existing releases. The issue here is that it also needs a library upgrade which may have unintended side effects, things get real complicated real quick! As you build lxle yourself, you are exempt from such issues but you should ensure that if, and when, you pull in more recent versions of applications that they do not go and break something. This particular issue will, by far and large, vanish when 14.04 is released as it will be lubuntu's first LTS which will get back-ports of upgrades; a thing made much easier by the Tech Board dropping the support life of non-LTS's to 9 months. To give a further insight into how the example I've used fares across the testing release against the stable releases can be seen by the version numbers each has[3].</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm sure that someone will correct me if I am factually incorrect on anything, the above is my understanding of things... I still learn more exact details about these processes regularly!</div><div>
<br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Phill.</div><div>1. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification</a></div><div>2. <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1210689">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1210689</a></div>
<div>3. <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bugs/?field.tag=upgrade-software-version">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bugs/?field.tag=upgrade-software-version</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 August 2013 22:02, Mr Wislr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@unleashpc.com" target="_blank">contact@unleashpc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There also seems to be a lubuntu testing ppa, while the updates work,<br>
they aren't 100%, some things like logging out through the panel and<br>
such stops working.<br>
<br>
So I guess I was wondering if there is an area<br>
dedicated to well tested updates...<br>
<br>
be nice if staging was used again, it was a cool area to safely update<br>
your system a bit, without too much risk.<br>
<br>
--Ronnie<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw</a>
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