Why is Synaptic version of Subversion not upgradeable?

[Markus Schönhaber]

bill walton:

> I'm running 8.04 LTS (64-bit) and installed Subversion 1.4.6 via the
> Synaptic Package Manager.  I now need to upgrade to SVN version 1.5.
> The package manager doesn't show SVN as upgradeable.  Has support for
> SVN been discontinued?

No, but for the vast majority of packages there will be no version
upgrades during the lifetime of a specific Ubuntu version in the "core"
repositories.

> What do I need to do to upgrade?

If you don't want to build it yourself or find some third-party packe
source, you can either upgrade to Intrepid or enable the hardy-backports
repository.

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Regards
  mks