Question: what to do when GitHub code works but Ubuntu package doesn't (same version)

[Michael Jeltsch]

Dear Ubuntu Developers,
I am an end user scientist of Ubuntu at the University of Helsinki,
Finland. We use the FigTree program (figtree, graphical phylogenetic tree
viewer) for our work and we install it from the Ubuntu repositories
(Science, universe). We published recently some of our findings, mentioning
that we used FigTree for the visualization (
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10456-023-09874-9). However, we always needed to
export to PDF and then convert to SVG to do our work because the direct
export to SVG always failed. However, we know that the GitHub code of the
same 1.4.4 version works when downloaded directly from GitHub. Therefore it
should be possible to fix the Ubuntu package. I also do not know whether
the issue still exists in the newer packages. We are always staying on the
latest stable LTS (atm 22.04), because our projects stretch over many years
and changing major version numbers has been a problem in the past...

Any feedback is appreciated.
Regards,
Michael

Michael Jeltsch, Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Protein Drug Research
Drug Research Program, IndiviDrug Research Program, Helsinki One Health,
Helsinki Institute of Sustainability & Wihuri Research Institute
University of Helsinki
Viikinkaari 5E (room 4051)
FIN-00790 Helsinki
+358-2941-25514 (work)
+358-50-3200235 (mobile)
michael at jeltsch.org
https://jeltsch.org
https://mjlab.fi <https://mjlab.fi/publications>
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