Updating package on universe

[Robie Basak]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 02:08:54AM +0000, CHANG, HENRY wrote:
> Can I get it updated on trusty? 
> 
> I Can't just upgrade a new OS in an enterprise environment.

And we can't just upgrade a package on all enterprise users' systems.
They use LTS releases because that's exactly what they don't want :)

Some options you have are:

1) Arrange a snap. See https://snapcraft.io/ and
https://snapcraft.io/create/. Snaps are decoupled from the OS and if the
upstream build process is straightforward then so is creating the snap.

2) Arrange a backport. See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports.

3) Backport the package but put it in a PPA instead.

Either way, expect to have to do some development work yourself.

Hope that helps,

Robie
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