libconfig is very old

[Tong Sun]

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 5:48 PM Adam Roach - adam at nostrum.com wrote:
>
> Hi! I was writing to find out what would be necessary to update the
> version of libconfig that ships with Ubuntu from 1.5-0.2 (released in
> 2015) to a more recent version, like 1.7.2. The version available from
> github just configures and compiles without any issue on Ubuntu 20:
>
> https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/dist/libconfig-1.7.2.tar.gz

Contributing to Ubuntu's upstream, Debian, is the normal way to go.
See https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ to start with.