Software updates

[Zach]

On 06/18/2011 09:52 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Robert Holtzman<holtzm at cox.net>  wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 07:07:20PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>>          ..........snip..........
>>> Notwithstanding the Debian maintainer being AWOL,
>> Care to expand on this? I've been trying out squeeze with the thought of
>> switching, but that statement causes me some concern.
> The previous poster had said "Looks like the maintainer has gone
> missing... https://launchpad.net/~cedric-debian".
>
> Looking at Launchpad, it's just that he's a Debian developer and he
> doesn't use Launchpad.
>
> However the last Debian upload was on July 31, 2010 and Stellarium
> 10.6 was released in January 2011...
I just used Stellarium as an example (btw, openSuSE had it in November 
'10 and I still currently have the Windows build dated Dec. '10 but 
that's not the point I'm making).  About a month ago, I tried Linux Mint 
just for grins & giggles and although it was OK, I still prefer Ubuntu.  
However, LM uses the same repository as Ubuntu but for some reason, I 
received the latest version of Alien Arena which was different from the 
Ubuntu one.  When I switched back to Ubuntu a few days later, it 
downloaded the previous version of the game.  Again, I'm just using 
these examples to illustrate the inconsistency (or just plain weirdness) 
of the repositories.

Zach