Sylpheed outdated ?

[Frank McCormick]

On Sat, 28 May 2011 18:17:58 +0200
Andreas Rönnquist <gusnan at gusnan.se> wrote:

> On 2011-05-28 17:44, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I am running Maverick and noticed a few days ago that Sylpheed my
> > mail software is Version 3.1.0beta2. I know there are later versions
> > available. Whose job is it the update the package, the maintainer ??
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> 
> See:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions#Updating%20programs
> 
> Program updates are very rare in released versions of Ubuntu - to get
> newer versions you update the whole Ubuntu install to a newer version,
> or use other repositories or PPA's. Security updates are the exception
> to this rule.
> 
> This is not just for Sylpheed, but _all_ programs.
> 

  Ah yes, I had forgotten about this - I enabled the backports
repository but still have Sylpheed 3.1.0beta2 :)
I do have a newer GDM and a couple of other bits and pieces.

Thanks


-- 
Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>