FlightGear packages on 20/22 LTS incorrect&unstable / out of date, respectively

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 9:06 PM snix <snix8 at proton.me> wrote:
>
> For Ubuntu LTS 20 and 22, I noted that packages for FlightGear Flight Simulator use an incorrect unstable version, or used a version that was out of date at time of Ubuntu LTS 1st release
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/flightgear
>
> > focal (20.04LTS) (games): Flight Gear Flight Simulator [universe]
> 1:2019.1.1+dfsg-2: amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x
>
> > jammy (22.04LTS) (games): Flight Gear Flight Simulator [universe]
> 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1build1: amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el riscv64 s390x
>
> I'm surprised at this. FlightGear is one of the really big open source projects, and one of the big examples where the open source philosophy has succeeded in surpassing closed source proprietary code, in that it is used by data to set a standard for future.
> [...]

Using Saikrishna Arcot's PPA works well for me. It is providing
1:2020.3.13, <https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/flightgear>:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release:        22.04
Codename:       jammy

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/saiarcot895-ubuntu-flightgear.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saiarcot895/flightgear/ubuntu jammy main

$ apt-cache show flightgear
Package: flightgear
Priority: extra
Section: games
Installed-Size: 23340
Maintainer: Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2020.3.13-0ubuntu1~ppa2~22.04.1
...

The binary or launcher is located at /usr/games/fgfs.

Jeff