FlightGear packages on 20/22 LTS incorrect&unstable / out of date, respectively

[Oliver Grawert]

Hi,
Am Donnerstag, dem 30.11.2023 um 02:05 +0000 schrieb snix:
> Hi!
> 
> 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 was out of date at time of Ubuntu LTS 1st release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 

there is a snap package that is not bound to the underlying release and
can update as needed (snaps use a rolling release model by default) ...

https://snapcraft.io/flightgear

to get the deb in the archive updated would be a little harder since
usually the release is frozen on release day and typically there are no
updates to new major versions of a package ...

if you want to try it anyway, you could follow:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

or alternatively ask the backports project to provide a backported
package in the ubuntu-backports archive ...

flightgear is a universe package and has no actual dedicated maintainer
in ubuntu itself, so whatever was in debian when the debian-import-
freeze happened in a release cycle ends up in the archive of the LTS
...

ciao
	oli


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